IO::Poll(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide IO::Poll(3) NAME IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call SYNOPSIS use IO::Poll qw(POLLRDNORM POLLWRNORM POLLIN POLLHUP); $poll = new IO::Poll; $poll->mask($input_handle => POLLIN); $poll->mask($output_handle => POLLOUT); $poll->poll($timeout(1,3x,3x cbreak)); $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(3,n) EVENT_MASK is non-zero, IO is added to the list of file(1,n) descriptors and the next call to poll will check for any event specified in(1,8) EVENT_MASK. If EVENT_MASK is zero then IO will be removed from the list of file(1,n) descriptors. If EVENT_MASK is not given then the return value will be the cur- rent 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 happend on IO during the last call to "poll". remove ( IO ) Remove IO from the list of file(1,n) 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. perl v5.8.5 2001-09-21 IO::Poll(3)