Re: Win32::SerialPort and POE

On Apr 10, 2008, at 13:23, Mark Swayne wrote:
> Does anybody have some working code using Win32::SerialPort with POE?
>
> I've tried to follow the example in the cookbook, but haven't been  
> able to get very far.  I injected a FILENO method.  Unfortunately, I  
> never seem to get any data from my comm port.  Is this due to the  
> broken socket-only select on Windows?

I believe so, yes.  Perl's select() is written using Windows' winsock  
library, which only multiplexes sockets. Your serial port is probably  
a device, so it's not eligible.

Cygwin-built Perl doesn't have this limitation, but I don't know  
whether Win32::SerialPort works there.

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