That's not what the
perlfunc entry for *my*
getsockopt says--mine says:
getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME
Are you talking about
getsockopt or
setsockopt? Sounds like the latter. But if
you're writing it as getsockopt, that's the
problem. :)
If you're using IO:Socket, this is much easier:
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
Listen => 5,
LocalAddr => 'localhost',
LocalPort => 9000,
Proto => 'tcp');
$sock->setopt(SO_SNDTIMEO, 1);
It acts on the SOL_SOCKET level.
In terms of a general resource--you said you've
read the man pages. Have you read the man pages
for the C functions that all this stuff is
based on? Those might help you out. The options
for setsockopt/getsockopt are in setsockopt(2).
