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infinite while loop in POE::Component::IRC

by Mik0r (Novice)
on Jun 09, 2010 at 01:47 UTC ( [id://843784]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Mik0r has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I am using POE::Component::IRC for my IRC bot. I have written a script using File::Tail to print a log file in real-time. The script works fine as a separate script but when I add this script into my IRC bot it causes it to lock up and ping out. I'm assuming It's a buffer issue. I've tried setting $| = 1; and I tried changing the while loop to an if loop like in the POE cookbook so it looked like this:

sub outputlog { if ($switch == 1) { sleep 3; print "test"; outputlog->(); } }

But no matter what I try even to do a basic loop like above it causes the bot to freeze and ping out. Anyone have any insight on how to make an infinite loop unbuffered in POE?

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Re: infinite while loop in POE::Component::IRC
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 09, 2010 at 09:50 UTC
    Your sub can be simplified to
    sub outputlog { outputlog() }
    (once $switch is true). This is an infinite loop, indeed, but with no relation to buffering.
Re: infinite while loop in POE::Component::IRC
by bingos (Vicar) on Jun 10, 2010 at 21:03 UTC

    POE is cooperative multitasking, which means that any part of the program that blocks will halt the whole program. In your case your infinite loop.

    I wrote a plugin to handle tailing a file to IRC called POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::FollowTail, it has been shipped in the POE-Component-IRC distribution since version 5.48 and uses POE::Wheel::FollowTail, to non-blockingly tail a file

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