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author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-03-11 14:43:33 -0700 |
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committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-03-11 14:49:26 -0700 |
commit | e46aa1ddb7d58d270bbc45cef016b0577cfdecaa (patch) | |
tree | 2c2bae16536e85b2786e98dda62579ffa5c90c27 /pod/perlipc.pod | |
parent | fa6c7d00a8b0cf48c0f78066f87065cfb43d601b (diff) | |
download | perl-e46aa1ddb7d58d270bbc45cef016b0577cfdecaa.tar.gz |
Fix various pod errors.
Mostly these are too long verbatim lines.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlipc.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlipc.pod | 442 |
1 files changed, 223 insertions, 219 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlipc.pod b/pod/perlipc.pod index 6be276384e..e3b74a55b9 100644 --- a/pod/perlipc.pod +++ b/pod/perlipc.pod @@ -316,8 +316,9 @@ Instead of setting C<$SIG{ALRM}>: try something like the following: - use POSIX qw(SIGALRM); - POSIX::sigaction(SIGALRM, POSIX::SigAction->new(sub { die "alarm" })) + use POSIX qw(SIGALRM); + POSIX::sigaction(SIGALRM, + POSIX::SigAction->new(sub { die "alarm" })) || die "Error setting SIGALRM handler: $!\n"; Another way to disable the safe signal behavior locally is to use @@ -515,17 +516,17 @@ containing the directory from which it was launched, and redirect its standard file descriptors from and to F</dev/null> so that random output doesn't wind up on the user's terminal. - use POSIX "setsid"; + use POSIX "setsid"; - sub daemonize { - chdir("/") || die "can't chdir to /: $!"; - open(STDIN, "< /dev/null") || die "can't read /dev/null: $!"; - open(STDOUT, "> /dev/null") || die "can't write to /dev/null: $!"; - defined(my $pid = fork()) || die "can't fork: $!"; - exit if $pid; # non-zero now means I am the parent - (setsid() != -1) || die "Can't start a new session: $!"; - open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT") || die "can't dup stdout: $!"; - } + sub daemonize { + chdir("/") || die "can't chdir to /: $!"; + open(STDIN, "< /dev/null") || die "can't read /dev/null: $!"; + open(STDOUT, "> /dev/null") || die "can't write to /dev/null: $!"; + defined(my $pid = fork()) || die "can't fork: $!"; + exit if $pid; # non-zero now means I am the parent + (setsid() != -1) || die "Can't start a new session: $!"; + open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT") || die "can't dup stdout: $!"; + } The fork() has to come before the setsid() to ensure you aren't a process group leader; the setsid() will fail if you are. If your @@ -812,70 +813,70 @@ this together by hand. This example only talks to itself, but you could reopen the appropriate handles to STDIN and STDOUT and call other processes. (The following example lacks proper error checking.) - #!/usr/bin/perl -w - # pipe1 - bidirectional communication using two pipe pairs - # designed for the socketpair-challenged - use IO::Handle; # thousands of lines just for autoflush :-( - pipe(PARENT_RDR, CHILD_WTR); # XXX: check failure? - pipe(CHILD_RDR, PARENT_WTR); # XXX: check failure? - CHILD_WTR->autoflush(1); - PARENT_WTR->autoflush(1); - - if ($pid = fork()) { - close PARENT_RDR; - close PARENT_WTR; - print CHILD_WTR "Parent Pid $$ is sending this\n"; - chomp($line = <CHILD_RDR>); - print "Parent Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; - close CHILD_RDR; close CHILD_WTR; - waitpid($pid, 0); - } else { - die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid; - close CHILD_RDR; - close CHILD_WTR; - chomp($line = <PARENT_RDR>); - print "Child Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; - print PARENT_WTR "Child Pid $$ is sending this\n"; - close PARENT_RDR; - close PARENT_WTR; - exit(0); - } + #!/usr/bin/perl -w + # pipe1 - bidirectional communication using two pipe pairs + # designed for the socketpair-challenged + use IO::Handle; # thousands of lines just for autoflush :-( + pipe(PARENT_RDR, CHILD_WTR); # XXX: check failure? + pipe(CHILD_RDR, PARENT_WTR); # XXX: check failure? + CHILD_WTR->autoflush(1); + PARENT_WTR->autoflush(1); + + if ($pid = fork()) { + close PARENT_RDR; + close PARENT_WTR; + print CHILD_WTR "Parent Pid $$ is sending this\n"; + chomp($line = <CHILD_RDR>); + print "Parent Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; + close CHILD_RDR; close CHILD_WTR; + waitpid($pid, 0); + } else { + die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid; + close CHILD_RDR; + close CHILD_WTR; + chomp($line = <PARENT_RDR>); + print "Child Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; + print PARENT_WTR "Child Pid $$ is sending this\n"; + close PARENT_RDR; + close PARENT_WTR; + exit(0); + } But you don't actually have to make two pipe calls. If you have the socketpair() system call, it will do this all for you. - #!/usr/bin/perl -w - # pipe2 - bidirectional communication using socketpair - # "the best ones always go both ways" - - use Socket; - use IO::Handle; # thousands of lines just for autoflush :-( - - # We say AF_UNIX because although *_LOCAL is the - # POSIX 1003.1g form of the constant, many machines - # still don't have it. - socketpair(CHILD, PARENT, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC) - || die "socketpair: $!"; - - CHILD->autoflush(1); - PARENT->autoflush(1); - - if ($pid = fork()) { - close PARENT; - print CHILD "Parent Pid $$ is sending this\n"; - chomp($line = <CHILD>); - print "Parent Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; - close CHILD; - waitpid($pid, 0); - } else { - die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid; - close CHILD; - chomp($line = <PARENT>); - print "Child Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; - print PARENT "Child Pid $$ is sending this\n"; - close PARENT; - exit(0); - } + #!/usr/bin/perl -w + # pipe2 - bidirectional communication using socketpair + # "the best ones always go both ways" + + use Socket; + use IO::Handle; # thousands of lines just for autoflush :-( + + # We say AF_UNIX because although *_LOCAL is the + # POSIX 1003.1g form of the constant, many machines + # still don't have it. + socketpair(CHILD, PARENT, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC) + || die "socketpair: $!"; + + CHILD->autoflush(1); + PARENT->autoflush(1); + + if ($pid = fork()) { + close PARENT; + print CHILD "Parent Pid $$ is sending this\n"; + chomp($line = <CHILD>); + print "Parent Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; + close CHILD; + waitpid($pid, 0); + } else { + die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid; + close CHILD; + chomp($line = <PARENT>); + print "Child Pid $$ just read this: '$line'\n"; + print PARENT "Child Pid $$ is sending this\n"; + close PARENT; + exit(0); + } =head1 Sockets: Client/Server Communication @@ -954,131 +955,133 @@ the appropriate interface on multihomed hosts. If you want sit on a particular interface (like the external side of a gateway or firewall machine), fill this in with your real address instead. - #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw - use strict; - BEGIN { $ENV{PATH} = "/usr/bin:/bin" } - use Socket; - use Carp; - my $EOL = "\015\012"; + #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw + use strict; + BEGIN { $ENV{PATH} = "/usr/bin:/bin" } + use Socket; + use Carp; + my $EOL = "\015\012"; - sub logmsg { print "$0 $$: @_ at ", scalar localtime(), "\n" } + sub logmsg { print "$0 $$: @_ at ", scalar localtime(), "\n" } - my $port = shift || 2345; - die "invalid port" unless $port =~ /^ \d+ $/x; + my $port = shift || 2345; + die "invalid port" unless $port =~ /^ \d+ $/x; - my $proto = getprotobyname("tcp"); + my $proto = getprotobyname("tcp"); - socket(Server, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!"; - setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, pack("l", 1)) - || die "setsockopt: $!"; - bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY)) || die "bind: $!"; - listen(Server, SOMAXCONN) || die "listen: $!"; + socket(Server, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!"; + setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, pack("l", 1)) + || die "setsockopt: $!"; + bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY)) || die "bind: $!"; + listen(Server, SOMAXCONN) || die "listen: $!"; - logmsg "server started on port $port"; + logmsg "server started on port $port"; - my $paddr; + my $paddr; - for ( ; $paddr = accept(Client, Server); close Client) { - my($port, $iaddr) = sockaddr_in($paddr); - my $name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET); + for ( ; $paddr = accept(Client, Server); close Client) { + my($port, $iaddr) = sockaddr_in($paddr); + my $name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET); - logmsg "connection from $name [", - inet_ntoa($iaddr), "] - at port $port"; + logmsg "connection from $name [", + inet_ntoa($iaddr), "] + at port $port"; - print Client "Hello there, $name, it's now ", - scalar localtime(), $EOL; - } + print Client "Hello there, $name, it's now ", + scalar localtime(), $EOL; + } And here's a multitasking version. It's multitasked in that like most typical servers, it spawns (fork()s) a slave server to handle the client request so that the master server can quickly go back to service a new client. - #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw - use strict; - BEGIN { $ENV{PATH} = "/usr/bin:/bin" } - use Socket; - use Carp; - my $EOL = "\015\012"; - - sub spawn; # forward declaration - sub logmsg { print "$0 $$: @_ at ", scalar localtime(), "\n" } - - my $port = shift || 2345; - die "invalid port" unless $port =~ /^ \d+ $/x; + #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw + use strict; + BEGIN { $ENV{PATH} = "/usr/bin:/bin" } + use Socket; + use Carp; + my $EOL = "\015\012"; - my $proto = getprotobyname("tcp"); + sub spawn; # forward declaration + sub logmsg { print "$0 $$: @_ at ", scalar localtime(), "\n" } - socket(Server, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!"; - setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, pack("l", 1)) - || die "setsockopt: $!"; - bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY)) || die "bind: $!"; - listen(Server, SOMAXCONN) || die "listen: $!"; + my $port = shift || 2345; + die "invalid port" unless $port =~ /^ \d+ $/x; - logmsg "server started on port $port"; + my $proto = getprotobyname("tcp"); - my $waitedpid = 0; - my $paddr; + socket(Server, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!"; + setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, pack("l", 1)) + || die "setsockopt: $!"; + bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY)) || die "bind: $!"; + listen(Server, SOMAXCONN) || die "listen: $!"; - use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; - use Errno; + logmsg "server started on port $port"; - sub REAPER { - local $!; # don't let waitpid() overwrite current error - while ((my $pid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)) > 0 && WIFEXITED($?)) { - logmsg "reaped $waitedpid" . ($? ? " with exit $?" : ""); - } - $SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER; # loathe SysV - } + my $waitedpid = 0; + my $paddr; - $SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER; + use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; + use Errno; - while (1) { - $paddr = accept(Client, Server) || do { - # try again if accept() returned because got a signal - next if $!{EINTR}; - die "accept: $!"; - }; - my ($port, $iaddr) = sockaddr_in($paddr); - my $name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET); - - logmsg "connection from $name [", - inet_ntoa($iaddr), - "] at port $port"; + sub REAPER { + local $!; # don't let waitpid() overwrite current error + while ((my $pid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)) > 0 && WIFEXITED($?)) { + logmsg "reaped $waitedpid" . ($? ? " with exit $?" : ""); + } + $SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER; # loathe SysV + } - spawn sub { - $| = 1; - print "Hello there, $name, it's now ", scalar localtime(), $EOL; - exec "/usr/games/fortune" # XXX: "wrong" line terminators - or confess "can't exec fortune: $!"; - }; - close Client; - } + $SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER; + + while (1) { + $paddr = accept(Client, Server) || do { + # try again if accept() returned because got a signal + next if $!{EINTR}; + die "accept: $!"; + }; + my ($port, $iaddr) = sockaddr_in($paddr); + my $name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET); + + logmsg "connection from $name [", + inet_ntoa($iaddr), + "] at port $port"; + + spawn sub { + $| = 1; + print "Hello there, $name, it's now ", + scalar localtime(), + $EOL; + exec "/usr/games/fortune" # XXX: "wrong" line terminators + or confess "can't exec fortune: $!"; + }; + close Client; + } - sub spawn { - my $coderef = shift; + sub spawn { + my $coderef = shift; - unless (@_ == 0 && $coderef && ref($coderef) eq "CODE") { - confess "usage: spawn CODEREF"; - } + unless (@_ == 0 && $coderef && ref($coderef) eq "CODE") { + confess "usage: spawn CODEREF"; + } - my $pid; - unless (defined($pid = fork())) { - logmsg "cannot fork: $!"; - return; - } - elsif ($pid) { - logmsg "begat $pid"; - return; # I'm the parent - } - # else I'm the child -- go spawn + my $pid; + unless (defined($pid = fork())) { + logmsg "cannot fork: $!"; + return; + } + elsif ($pid) { + logmsg "begat $pid"; + return; # I'm the parent + } + # else I'm the child -- go spawn - open(STDIN, "<&Client") || die "can't dup client to stdin"; - open(STDOUT, ">&Client") || die "can't dup client to stdout"; - ## open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT") || die "can't dup stdout to stderr"; - exit($coderef->()); - } + open(STDIN, "<&Client") || die "can't dup client to stdin"; + open(STDOUT, ">&Client") || die "can't dup client to stdout"; + ## open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT") || die "can't dup stdout to stderr"; + exit($coderef->()); + } This server takes the trouble to clone off a child version via fork() for each incoming request. That way it can handle many requests at @@ -1294,7 +1297,7 @@ that the server there cares to provide. PeerAddr => "localhost", PeerPort => "daytime(13)", ) - || die "can't connect to daytime service on localhost"; + || die "can't connect to daytime service on localhost"; while (<$remote>) { print } When you run this program, you should get something back that @@ -1569,15 +1572,16 @@ Here's the code. We'll $client->autoflush(1); print $client "Welcome to $0; type help for command list.\n"; $hostinfo = gethostbyaddr($client->peeraddr); - printf "[Connect from %s]\n", $hostinfo ? $hostinfo->name : $client->peerhost; + printf "[Connect from %s]\n", + $hostinfo ? $hostinfo->name : $client->peerhost; print $client "Command? "; while ( <$client>) { - next unless /\S/; # blank line - if (/quit|exit/i) { last } - elsif (/date|time/i) { printf $client "%s\n", scalar localtime() } - elsif (/who/i ) { print $client `who 2>&1` } - elsif (/cookie/i ) { print $client `/usr/games/fortune 2>&1` } - elsif (/motd/i ) { print $client `cat /etc/motd 2>&1` } + next unless /\S/; # blank line + if (/quit|exit/i) { last } + elsif (/date|time/i) { printf $client "%s\n", scalar localtime() } + elsif (/who/i ) { print $client `who 2>&1` } + elsif (/cookie/i ) { print $client `/usr/games/fortune 2>&1` } + elsif (/motd/i ) { print $client `cat /etc/motd 2>&1` } else { print $client "Commands: quit date who cookie motd\n"; } @@ -1610,49 +1614,49 @@ will check many of them asynchronously by simulating a multicast and then using select() to do a timed-out wait for I/O. To do something similar with TCP, you'd have to use a different socket handle for each host. - #!/usr/bin/perl -w - use strict; - use Socket; - use Sys::Hostname; - - my ( $count, $hisiaddr, $hispaddr, $histime, - $host, $iaddr, $paddr, $port, $proto, - $rin, $rout, $rtime, $SECS_OF_70_YEARS); - - $SECS_OF_70_YEARS = 2_208_988_800; - - $iaddr = gethostbyname(hostname()); - $proto = getprotobyname("udp"); - $port = getservbyname("time", "udp"); - $paddr = sockaddr_in(0, $iaddr); # 0 means let kernel pick - - socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!"; - bind(SOCKET, $paddr) || die "bind: $!"; - - $| = 1; - printf "%-12s %8s %s\n", "localhost", 0, scalar localtime(); - $count = 0; - for $host (@ARGV) { - $count++; - $hisiaddr = inet_aton($host) || die "unknown host"; - $hispaddr = sockaddr_in($port, $hisiaddr); - defined(send(SOCKET, 0, 0, $hispaddr)) || die "send $host: $!"; - } + #!/usr/bin/perl -w + use strict; + use Socket; + use Sys::Hostname; + + my ( $count, $hisiaddr, $hispaddr, $histime, + $host, $iaddr, $paddr, $port, $proto, + $rin, $rout, $rtime, $SECS_OF_70_YEARS); + + $SECS_OF_70_YEARS = 2_208_988_800; + + $iaddr = gethostbyname(hostname()); + $proto = getprotobyname("udp"); + $port = getservbyname("time", "udp"); + $paddr = sockaddr_in(0, $iaddr); # 0 means let kernel pick + + socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!"; + bind(SOCKET, $paddr) || die "bind: $!"; + + $| = 1; + printf "%-12s %8s %s\n", "localhost", 0, scalar localtime(); + $count = 0; + for $host (@ARGV) { + $count++; + $hisiaddr = inet_aton($host) || die "unknown host"; + $hispaddr = sockaddr_in($port, $hisiaddr); + defined(send(SOCKET, 0, 0, $hispaddr)) || die "send $host: $!"; + } - $rin = ""; - vec($rin, fileno(SOCKET), 1) = 1; - - # timeout after 10.0 seconds - while ($count && select($rout = $rin, undef, undef, 10.0)) { - $rtime = ""; - $hispaddr = recv(SOCKET, $rtime, 4, 0) || die "recv: $!"; - ($port, $hisiaddr) = sockaddr_in($hispaddr); - $host = gethostbyaddr($hisiaddr, AF_INET); - $histime = unpack("N", $rtime) - $SECS_OF_70_YEARS; - printf "%-12s ", $host; - printf "%8d %s\n", $histime - time(), scalar localtime($histime); - $count--; - } + $rin = ""; + vec($rin, fileno(SOCKET), 1) = 1; + + # timeout after 10.0 seconds + while ($count && select($rout = $rin, undef, undef, 10.0)) { + $rtime = ""; + $hispaddr = recv(SOCKET, $rtime, 4, 0) || die "recv: $!"; + ($port, $hisiaddr) = sockaddr_in($hispaddr); + $host = gethostbyaddr($hisiaddr, AF_INET); + $histime = unpack("N", $rtime) - $SECS_OF_70_YEARS; + printf "%-12s ", $host; + printf "%8d %s\n", $histime - time(), scalar localtime($histime); + $count--; + } This example does not include any retries and may consequently fail to contact a reachable host. The most prominent reason for this is congestion |