I use IO::Socket for making a connection to TCP server. I want that connection to be non-blocking and I try to use IO::Select for that purpose. However, I have only one socket, and I use mainly the can_read() method, so if nothing comes from the socket, the conn will be non-blocking, untill something come.
Here is the way I do:
my $sock = ...
my $sel = IO::Select->new();
$sel->add($sock);
while (1){
if ($sel->can_read(0.5)){
$line = <$socket>;
print $line;
} else {
print ".";
}
} #end of while 1
In that way I thing that if nothing comes, I should get a row of dots printed. If something comes it should get printed instead of a dot.
Whatever.. nothing happens. Any ideas?
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