Turner wrote: > Hello Perl gurus, > > I'm currently in the process of writing a chat server in Perl. > Everything is all hunky-dory--it parses commands as it should, and is, > of course, quite satisfying. Except for one thing, and that is that it > cannot handle multiple clients at once, which, needless to say, is > kind of useful for a chat program, isn't it? So I've been following > the discussion online of Threads vs. forking vs. non-blocking IO, and > I've decided to try threads, which is neat because this is the first > thing I've ever done with threading. However, my excitement has been > somewhat dampened by the fact that it does not work. It can still > happily handle a single client--no complaints there. However, it can > still ONLY handle a single client. There's probably a hole in my > understanding of threads (e.g., I don't entirely understand what > join() and detach() DO...). Below is the relevant server code, and I > was hoping some kind soul could look at it, suppress his laughter at > my naive code and point me in the right direction. > [...]
If you just want to handle multiple clients, you may want to look at the select() function. (See the bottom part in the perldoc-umentation. The one with RBITS, WBITS, ... or here http://www.perlfect.com/articles/select.shtml) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
