Re: Event and IO::Socket

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:40:47AM -0400, Jeff Boes wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 00:01, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > That looks OK to me.  Is it actually not working or are you just
> > looking for encouragement?
> 
> Hmm.  It seems to be working now, but I'm not quite sure what I did.  I
> guess the encouragement is sufficient!
> 
> But on another note: what exactly does the 'min' parameter for an 'io'
> event do?

'min' is the minimum number of seconds between triggering the watcher.
If it triggers more frequently than 'min' seconds that that is fine.

> I've sent 'min' to 20, but I see events occurring more
> frequently than that.  What I'd like to do is have the event trigger on
> the availability of data at the socket, but not if the last event
> happened less than N seconds ago.

You'll need to special case that behavior in your callback.

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