You want to use Pike.Backend. It's the object that implements the main backend, but you can create such objects yourself and register files in them (->add_file()). Then you do a loop like

while (keep_running) my_backend();

to poll the files in your backend only. Note that my_backend is an object here; it's the lfun `() that starts it (which I think only is confusing). You can supply a timeout parameter to it.

Pike.Backend only exists in 7.4 and later. It also has some bugs unless you use a more or less cvs fresh version (of 7.4 or 7.5).

If you find quirks and things to improve in backend objects, now is a good time to ask since I'm currently messing with it for the sake of fixing SSL.sslfile.

/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS

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2003-10-21 19:20: Subject: (no subject)

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Hi,

I'm trying to write a single-threaded telnet server, but I am cannot find the equivalent of the C "int select(...)" function within Pike.

Is this accomplished via sleep and signal checking, or am I missing something basic?

I know that if I return -1 I enter the "event loop", but I'm looking for a way to "wait" for I/O signals for only the telcom I/O that I am managing in this code.

Any hint would be appreciated.

Thank you for you time, and patience.

Sincerely,

Frank

/ Brevbäraren