Re: New to perl: IO Select question :(

[zentara]

In case you havn't found the answer yet, here is a working script for you to test. If the script below dosn't work, you may have poor clients. I included a compatible client below the server.

Server:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket;
use IO::Select;

my @sockets;
my $machine_addr = '192.168.0.1';
$main_sock = new IO::Socket::INET(LocalAddr=>$machine_addr,
      LocalPort=>1200,
      Proto=>'tcp',
      Listen=>3,
            Reuse=>1,
            );

die "Could not connect: $!" unless $main_sock;
print "Starting Server\n";

$readable_handles = new IO::Select();
$readable_handles->add($main_sock);

while (1)
{
  ($new_readable) = IO::Select->select($readable_handles, undef, undef
+, 0);

  foreach $sock (@$new_readable)
  {
    if ($sock == $main_sock)
    {
      $new_sock = $sock->accept();
      $readable_handles->add($new_sock);
    }
    else
    {
      $buf = <$sock>;
      if ($buf)
      {
        print "$buf\n";
        my @sockets = $readable_handles->can_write();
        #print $sock "You sent $buf\n"; 
        foreach my $sck(@sockets){print $sck "$buf\n";}

      }
      else
      {
        $readable_handles->remove($sock);
        close($sock);
      }
    }
  }

}

print "Terminating Server\n";
close $main_sock;
getc();

Client: #######################################

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket;

my ( $host, $port, $kidpid, $handle, $line );

( $host, $port ) = ('192.168.0.1',1200);

my $name = shift || '';
if($name eq ''){print "What's your name?\n"}
chomp ($name = <>);


# create a tcp connection to the specified host and port 
$handle = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Proto    => "tcp",
    PeerAddr => $host,
    PeerPort => $port
  )
  or die "can't connect to port $port on $host: $!";
$handle->autoflush(1);    # so output gets there right away 
print STDERR "[Connected to $host:$port]\n";

# split the program into two processes, identical twins 
die "can't fork: $!" unless defined( $kidpid = fork() );

# the if{} block runs only in the parent process 
if ($kidpid) {

    # copy the socket to standard output 
    while ( defined( $line = <$handle> ) ) {
                      print STDOUT $line;
                      }
    kill( "TERM", $kidpid );    # send SIGTERM to child 
}

# the else{} block runs only in the child process 
else {

    # copy standard input to the socket 
    while ( defined( $line = <STDIN> ) ) {
        print $handle "$name->$line";
    }
}