> -----Original Message-----
> From: MACKENZIE,IAN (A-Scotland,ex1)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 06 November 2000 12:53
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Help, fileevent (Tk) fails in NT for sockets
> I have a PerlTk program that uses sockets with the fileevent
> set to call the callback sub when the socket filehandle is readable,
> this works fine in unix but in WINNT the filevent calls ths callback
> sub even when there is no connection to the socket
> filehandle, has ANYONE
> found a fix to this dammed problem
See the manual page for fileevent...
BUGS
On windows platforms fileevent is limited in the types of filehandles that
behave correctly. Making filefhandles non-blocking is only implemented on a
subset of UNIX platforms (see Tk::IO).
...so there you have it! Why not use select?
Michael Erskine (MSEmtd)
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