Re: Timing-out network clients?

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IO::Socket::INET's timeout method (or the Timeout hash-param to the constructor) won't do what you want here. That timeout value corresponds to how long the socket should wait for acknowledgment from the peer when it has sent data (or is trying to connect).

You definitely do need some sort of "global timer". You're forking, so it's probably as simple as:

recording the PID of the child in a hash, along with the start time
noting when the child process should no longer be around,
sending the KILL signal to the child process.

To set up the timer, you'll either need to use alarm, or switch to a non-blocking form of $server->accept.
I recommend putting the listening socket into an IO::Select object, then adding calls to Timer::HiRes::usleep in your while loop.

-David

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Re^2: Timing-out network clients? by pascaldee (Acolyte) on Dec 05, 2007 at 07:12 UTC
Thanks for the suggestion. I prefer not simply limiting the maximum age for a child, since children need different time according to their connection speed and amount of data to send. I want to set timeout for every read from the client. So I guess I'll try to look at a select()-based approach.	[reply]

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