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IO::Select (3)

Name

IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call

Synopsis

use IO::Select;

$s = IO::Select->new();

$s->add(\*STDIN);
$s->add($some_handle);

@ready = $s->can_read($timeout);

@ready = IO::Select->new(@handles)->can_read(0);

Description

Perl Programmers Reference Guide                                 IO::Select(3)



NAME
       IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call

SYNOPSIS
           use IO::Select;

           $s = IO::Select->new();

           $s->add(\*STDIN);
           $s->add($some_handle);

           @ready = $s->can_read($timeout);

           @ready = IO::Select->new(@handles)->can_read(0);

DESCRIPTION
       The "IO::Select" package implements an object approach to the system
       "select" function call. It allows the user to see what IO handles, see
       IO::Handle, are ready for reading, writing or have an exception
       pending.

CONSTRUCTOR
       new ( [ HANDLES ] )
           The constructor creates a new object and optionally initialises it
           with a set of handles.

METHODS
       add ( HANDLES )
           Add the list of handles to the "IO::Select" object. It is these
           values that will be returned when an event occurs. "IO::Select"
           keeps these values in a cache which is indexed by the "fileno" of
           the handle, so if more than one handle with the same "fileno" is
           specified then only the last one is cached.

           Each handle can be an "IO::Handle" object, an integer or an array
           reference where the first element is an "IO::Handle" or an integer.

       remove ( HANDLES )
           Remove all the given handles from the object. This method also
           works by the "fileno" of the handles. So the exact handles that
           were added need not be passed, just handles that have an equivalent
           "fileno"

       exists ( HANDLE )
           Returns a true value (actually the handle itself) if it is present.
           Returns undef otherwise.

       handles
           Return an array of all registered handles.

       can_read ( [ TIMEOUT ] )
           Return an array of handles that are ready for reading.  "TIMEOUT"
           is the maximum amount of time to wait before returning an empty
           list (with $!  unchanged), in seconds, possibly fractional.  If
           "TIMEOUT" is not given and any handles are registered then the call
           will block indefinitely.  Upon error, an empty list is returned,
           with $! set to indicate the error.  To distinguish between timeout
           and error, set $! to zero before calling this method, and check it
           after an empty list is returned.

       can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] )
           Same as "can_read" except check for handles that can be written to.

       has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] )
           Same as "can_read" except check for handles that have an exception
           condition, for example pending out-of-band data.

       count ()
           Returns the number of handles that the object will check for when
           one of the "can_" methods is called or the object is passed to the
           "select" static method.

       bits()
           Return the bit string suitable as argument to the core select()
           call.

       select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] )
           "select" is a static method, that is you call it with the package
           name like "new". "READ", "WRITE" and "EXCEPTION" are either "undef"
           or "IO::Select" objects. "TIMEOUT" is optional and has the same
           effect as for the core select call.

           If at least one handle is ready for the specified kind of
           operation, the result will be an array of 3 elements, each a
           reference to an array which will hold the handles that are ready
           for reading, writing and have exceptions respectively.  Upon
           timeout, an empty list is returned, with $! unchanged.  Upon error,
           an empty list is returned, with $!  set to indicate the error.  To
           distinguish between timeout and error, set $! to zero before
           calling this method, and check it after an empty list is returned.

EXAMPLE
       Here is a short example which shows how "IO::Select" could be used to
       write a server which communicates with several sockets while also
       listening for more connections on a listen socket

           use IO::Select;
           use IO::Socket;

           $lsn = IO::Socket::INET->new(Listen => 1, LocalPort => 8080);
           $sel = IO::Select->new( $lsn );

           while(@ready = $sel->can_read) {
               foreach $fh (@ready) {
                   if($fh == $lsn) {
                       # Create a new socket
                       $new = $lsn->accept;
                       $sel->add($new);
                   }
                   else {
                       # Process socket

                       # Maybe we have finished with the socket
                       $sel->remove($fh);
                       $fh->close;
                   }
               }
           }

AUTHOR
       Graham Barr. Currently maintained by the Perl Porters.  Please report
       all bugs to <perlbug@perl.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1997-8 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>. All rights
       reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/perl-532      |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Pass-through volatile |
       +---------------+-----------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.perl.org/.



perl v5.32.0                      2020-06-14                     IO::Select(3)