On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:21:23AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> i heard that IO::socket can now do non-blocking connects. the man pages
> don't mention that (or i can't find the right docs). any ideas?
>
> i know graham should know this.
IO::Socket uses non-blocking for doing it's connects so that it can do
a timeout without using alarm(), but it does not really provided
an interface to do non-blocking connects via ->new(). But if
you want to call the individual methods (bind, connect etc) then
you can do it.
Graham.
