<quote who="Hans Fugal"> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 at 16:58 -0700, David Smith wrote: >> Perl's built-in select() function doesn't quite look like what I want. I >> think IO::Select may be the trick, but it seems like overkill when I >> just >> have one socket (and not a set of handles to multiplex). Can anyone shed >> light on this struggling Perlmonk wannabe? > > Isn't that the C way too though? Don't you have to set up the FDSETs and > all that even if you're only selecting on one fd?
Yes, you are correct. I have a nice Socket library in C++ that abstracts that so all I have to call is socket->Select( timeout ). I was hoping for something similar in Perl. --Dave .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
