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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting simple socket programming in perl Post 302228165 by redoubtable on Saturday 23rd of August 2008 06:43:30 AM
Old 08-23-2008
Under Linux there is a way to make any file handler / file descriptor non-block through the fcntl() function.

Code:
use POSIX;
...
fcntl($MySocket, F_SETFL(), O_NONBLOCK()); # call this before $MySocket->recv($text,128)
...

You can also use sysread() which won't block.
 

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