PERL Miscellaneous - losing data on socket

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losing data on socket

Vorxion

2004-03-28, 10:22 pm

I'm losing data on incoming sockets on a server written in perl.
I'm using IO::Socket, and I'm setting $server->autoflush(0) and
$server->blocking(0) as well as trying both $server->setbuf($main_buffer)
or $server->setvbuf($main_buffer,_IOFBF,102400000). I'm using IO::Select
to tell when I'm ready for reading on individual connections. $main_buffer
is a pure global in the main:: namspace.

Most telling, the length of $main_buffer never changes from 0. I have no
idea why. It acts like it's not being used.

I've read the docs, I've been beating myself over the head with this code
for a w

. Someone have mercy on me and tell me how to keep from losing
the input? Please? I'm desperate at this point.

Same behaviour on perl 5.6.1 Solaris and 5.8.3 Linux. 5.8.0 on Solaris
actually silently dies when it hits the set[v]buf() command. :-/

Help? Please?

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