Re: Pre-Announce : POE::Wheel::Sendfile

On 12/18/2010 09:47 AM, Philip Gwyn wrote:
> Greeting POElings,
>
> Following my work with Sys::Sendfile in the HTTP component, I decided that it
> would be useful enough on it's own.  So I've concocted POE::Wheel::Sendfile.
>
> It is a straight sub-class of POE::Wheel::Sendfile that can use Sys::Sendfile
> to efficiently send a file over a network connection.

I believe you meant it's "a straight sub-class of POE::Wheel::ReadWrite...".  I 
noticed the same typo in your POD description section.

-- 
Jeremy Leader
[email protected]

> The initial draft is currently on the CPAN:
>
>      http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?POE::Wheel::Sendfile
>
> TODO:
>   - tests for the fall-back mechanism;
>   - test with each loop, just in case;
>   - POE::Wheel::Sendfile could be installed even though Sys::Sendfile isn't.  I
>     need a good way to signify this in Makefile.PL.
>
> -Philip