On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Chris Knipe <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's times like this that I *really* wish I knew how to code in C - no
> offence to anyone, again.  Even in .NET doing something like this is
> almost trivial by using separate event handlers for receiving data
> from the socket - again which is why I firmly believed that something
> like this could have been done via POE (yes, this would be handled via
> threads - but it's done and managed by the .NET modules, and thus
> require -very- little code, or understanding for that matter, from the
> programmer's point of view).
>

It sounds like you want an event loop that triggers on socket activity.
Would something like AnyEvent::Socket
<http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent-7.07/lib/AnyEvent/Socket.pm>
work for you? I came across it by googling "perl socket event handler".

-- 
Robert Wohlfarth

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