Hi, On Wednesday, 5. March 2014 11:32:52 Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:31:29 +0100 Peter Marschall <pe...@adpm.de> wrote: > > Paul, > > from the mail above, I get it that Timeout is working in > > IO::Socket::IP. Can you confirm? > > Additionally, may I ask you to add Timeout to the documentation? > > Ah yes; this is actually down to a misunderstanding on my part. I'm glad I am not the only one ;-))
> Originally I had presumed that IO::Socket::IP would have to implement > the "Timeout" option, because IO::Socket::INET lists it in its > documentation. However, on reading the source code I discovered > that ::INET doesn't implement it; the code to actually implement that > option appears entirely within IO::Socket itself, which ::INET > inherits from. Because ::IP is also a subclass of plain IO::Socket, it > automatically inherits the Timeout option. Ah, that makes it clear. > Ideally core's documentation should be changed to document Timeout in > IO::Socket rather than IO::Socket::INET, which would also solve this > issue. Until that happens, why not adding it to the IO::Socket::IP POD (to have it more complete)? Please?! > But long story short: IO::Socket::IP supports the Timeout option in the > same way that IO::Socket::INET documents for itself. Thanks for the clarification. I guess it is time for a new version of perl-ldap with IO::Socket::IP n the next days. Thanks Peter -- Peter Marschall pe...@adpm.de
