Here is my working example:

http://svn.xantus.org/shortbus/trunk/cometd-perl/lab/aio.pl

David


On 12/13/06, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@[...].com>  wrote:
> 
>  Although Marc Lehmann doesn't come out and say so, IO::AIO provides
>  two features that support its use from POE in a couple different ways.
> 
>  It exposes a file descriptor, which can be used to notify select-like
>  loops when AIO operations are complete.  For example:
> 
>     # POE integration
>     open my $fh, "<&=" . IO::AIO::poll_fileno or die "$!";
>     $_[KERNEL]->select_read($fh, "aio_event");
> 
>  Or you can use its callback mechanism with POE::Session's postback()
>  or callback():
> 
>     aio_open "/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY, 0, $_[SESSION]->postback
>  ("aio_open_event");

Whether you "should" use IO::AIO is a matter of your application's
>  requirements.  Quite a lot of systems don't require AIO, so they
>  shouldn't use IO::AIO.
> 
>  I hope this helps.
> 
>  --
>  Rocco Caputo - rcaputo@[...].com
> 
>  On Dec 11, 2006, at 04:42, aninnymouse@[...].com wrote:
> 
>  > According to the documentation that only does buffered I/O. There are
>  > many other file operations that can block, which IO::AIO deals with-
>  > file opening and creation, closing and deletion, link/symlink, stat,
>  > rename, etc.  Does POE handle those as well?
>  >
>  > Matt Sickler wrote:
>  >> why use IO::AIO when there is POE::Wheel::ReadWrite?
>  >>
>  >> On 9 Dec 2006 21:37:14 -0800, aninnymouse@[...].com
>  >> <aninnymouse@[...].com>
>  >> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> To avoid blocking when doing file operations under POE, shouldn't
>  >>> IO::AIO be used? I haven't seen any mention or examples of two being
>  >>> used together.  If somebody has done this already, can they post an
>  >>> example here or on the wiki. Thanks.
>  >>>
>  >>> Also, there was a brief mention [1] on the djabberd mailing list
>  >>> that
>  >>> Brad would like to bring Danga::Socket and POE together. Any
>  >>> thoughts
>  >>> from this camp?
>  >>>
>  >>> [1] http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/djabberd/2006-October/
>  >>> 000198.html
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>
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