Re: unexpected behavior with GIOChannels?

["John McDermott" <jjm jkintl com>]

> If I connect that to something like netcat (nc -l $host -p $port),
> then kill netcat, I'd expect a HUP since the socket is broken. Instead
> i get an endless loop of:
>
> $VAR1 = \[
>             'in'
>           ];
>
> Which seems odd since if there's no socket, how can there be data
> waiting to be read?
>
> Basicly my goal is to recognize when the other side has broken the
> socket, so that perl can clean up its half. Am I even going about this
> the right way?

IIRC, you actually have to read to clear the 'in' event.  I suspect it is 
repeating the same event.  I would try actually reading.  Send a 10 byte 
file, read all you can into a buffer, then you should get the HUP

[I cannot test it right now as I do not have the current version up on 
any machines here.]

--john

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