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Perl Networking with Asynchronous Processes

Course Summary

This course presents some of the more common methods used in Perl programs to start asynchronous processes (e.g., fork, piped opens) and then communicate with them. Communication methods covered include signals, pipelines, and sockets.

Audience:

Programmers experienced in writing Perl programs, who want to develop daemons, or client server programs.

Prerequisite Knowledge:

The student should have taken the Introduction to Perl Programming, or have equivalent Perl programming experience.

Terminal Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to: Design, write, debug client server Perl code.

Course Length:

2 Days.

Course Outline:

fork, exec, And wait

Daemons

Signals And Signal Handlers

sigalrm

sigchld

Named Pipes

Berkeley Sockets

Socketpair

UNIX domain addressing

Internet Domain Addresses

Socket Control

Avoiding Client Deadlocks

The EventServer Package

Object-Oriented Sockets

The Net::Telnet Package

The LibWWW-Perl Package

The IO-Pty Package