Mark Delany wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:29:37AM +0000, Greg Cope wrote:
>
> > > I used IO::select to handle running multiple qmail-remotes at the same
> > > time. qmail-remote has a really small footprint so you can run 1000s
> > > of them concurrently on a modest sized server. It takes a fair amount
> > > of code to manage multiplexed pipes in conjunction with handling
> > > stdout and stderr (execution errors) responses and exit conditions.
> > >
> > > (I see that there is an IO::Poll in which case I'd probably use that
> > > in preference to IO::Select because of some of the select limit issues
> > > on some OSes).
> >
> > Can you shed any more light on this. I am very interested as I may
> > write something similar soon, and any ideas / help would be much
> > appreciated.
>
> Well, that's more a perl/Unix issue than a qmail one so this isn't the
> right place to discussed it. If you're asking about the benefits of
> poll vs select, there is plenty of material on the net about
> this. (Now if kqueue gets into enough Unixen and someone write a perl
> interface for it, well, that'd be something to talk about :> )
>
What I was interested in was using perl to drive qmail-remote, not a
discussion of poll vs select, although that would be handy.
Greg
> Regards.
