Joseph wrote:
>
> Rob Dixon wrote:
> >
> > Not exactly a transparent piece of code though is it. Especially
> > if your base system isn't Unix!
>
> Works jusat fine on Windows, although it helps to have a longer list,
> since this gets p[rocessed really fast, too fast to see what's going
> on. Try increasing the loop count to 40.
Hi Joseph.
Yes, it may work well on Windows (and that's useful to know)
but my point still stands.
perldoc -f select
says
select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT
This calls the select(2) system call with the bit masks
specified
Now, if your platform has no such thing as a 'select(2) system call' you
shouldn't really be using the built-in without a proper wrapper and
copious comments to prove that you know what you're doing.
Rob
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