Re: [MacPerl] nonblocking

["Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@postoffice.sells.com>]

>I don't have time to look it up today and play with it, maybe someone
>knows.  Is there a way to make filehandles not block in MacPerl?
>

The code from the faq appears to work correctly on my machine.  I don't
can't tell you if it's actually not blocking properly or not, though.


***FAQ snip****
How do I open a file without blocking?

You need to use the O_NDELAY or O_NONBLOCK flag from the Fcntl module in
conjunction with sysopen():

    use Fcntl;
    sysopen(FH, "/tmp/somefile", O_WRONLY|O_NDELAY|O_CREAT, 0644)
    or die "can't open /tmp/somefile: $!":
***************

-Jeff Lowrey



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