NAME¶
IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
SYNOPSIS¶
use IO::Poll qw(POLLRDNORM POLLWRNORM POLLIN POLLHUP);
$poll = IO::Poll->new();
$poll->mask($input_handle => POLLIN);
$poll->mask($output_handle => POLLOUT);
$poll->poll($timeout);
$ev = $poll->events($input);
DESCRIPTION¶
"IO::Poll" is a simple interface to the system level poll routine.
METHODS¶
- mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] )
- If EVENT_MASK is given, then, if EVENT_MASK is non-zero, IO
is added to the list of file descriptors and the next call to poll will
check for any event specified in EVENT_MASK. If EVENT_MASK is zero then IO
will be removed from the list of file descriptors.
If EVENT_MASK is not given then the return value will be the current event
mask value for IO.
- poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] )
- Call the system level poll routine. If TIMEOUT is not
specified then the call will block. Returns the number of handles which
had events happen, or -1 on error.
- events ( IO )
- Returns the event mask which represents the events that
happened on IO during the last call to "poll".
- remove ( IO )
- Remove IO from the list of file descriptors for the next
poll.
- handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
- Returns a list of handles. If EVENT_MASK is not given then
a list of all handles known will be returned. If EVENT_MASK is given then
a list of handles will be returned which had one of the events specified
by EVENT_MASK happen during the last call ti "poll"
SEE ALSO¶
poll(2), IO::Handle, IO::Select
AUTHOR¶
Graham Barr. Currently maintained by the Perl Porters. Please report all bugs to
<perl5-porters@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.