On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:11:33PM +0100, Andrew Benham wrote:
> Perl 5.8.6
>
> File /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Socket.pm on
> Fedora Core 4.
>
> Line 407 (which is part of the POD) states:
>
> $sock->read(1024,$data) until $sock->atmark;
>
> I don't believe the arguments to the read() method are in the
> correct order.
You're right, they're not.
--- lib/IO/Socket.pm 2005/07/12 20:18:07 1.1
+++ lib/IO/Socket.pm 2005/07/12 20:18:12
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
use IO::Socket;
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new('some_server');
- $sock->read(1024,$data) until $sock->atmark;
+ $sock->read($data, 1024) until $sock->atmark;
Note: this is a reasonably new addition to the family of socket
functions, so all systems may not support this yet. If it is
--
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the
implementation and then relied upon it.
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