select_tut(2) (was Re: [plug] [OT] Perl Sub Modify Global Variable)

[Timothy White]

Russell Steicke wrote:

>You might want to look at a more traditional unix way of handling
>things like this: select().  No threads, so no locking issues.  Your
>server is likely to be waiting on IO most of the time anyway, so it
>uses select() to wait for any of the file descriptors that become
>ready.  Your read set in the select always includes the listening
>socket file descriptor.  When that fd returns readable, call accept on
>it and add the new file descriptor to the read set.  Each time
>select() returns you look at the active file descriptors and do
>whatever they require.
>
>select_tut(2) will tell you more.
>
>You actually end up writing a state machine driven by select(), but
>it's not that hard.
>
As I don't seem to have this man page on my system can somebody tell me
which Debian package to install to get it or failing that send it to me?

Thanks

Tim

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