Perl 5.8 threads and sockets problem

[Jeremy Aiyadurai]

hi All,

Thanks for your help so far.

I tried threads->create, it made no difference,
as mentioned in the manpage, "The new() method is an alias for create(). "

Your Help is much appreciated,
thanks

Jeremy A.

>From: abez <abez at abez.ca>
>To: Jeremy Aiyadurai <jeremygwa at hotmail.com>
>CC: victoria-pm at pm.org
>Subject: Re: Perl 5.8 threads and sockets problem
>Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:38:16 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>First of all try threads->create, rather than new. Other than that I'm too
>dizzy to really help right now (flu).
>
>On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Jeremy Aiyadurai wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am new to the group.
> > I have a problem involving sockets and threads.
> >
> > Basically, I want to be able to do two or more pop3 sessions 
>simultaniously
> > using a list of different pop3 accounts.
> > my problem is, I can logon to the first account, but when
> > it comes to the second account's turn (in the second thread), the socket
> > cannot be created.
> >
> > I am new to using threads and have little knowledge of sockets.
> >
> > Your Help is much appreciated,
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeremy A.
> >
> > Below is my test script I am having trouble with.
> >
> >
> > #-----------------------------------------------------
> > use threads;
> > use Win32;
> > use IO::Socket qw(:DEFAULT :crlf);
> >
> >
> > my @thr;
> > my @Data;
> > $Data[0] = { 'UID' => "Jeremy", 'SVR' => "mail.host.net", 'PORT' => 
>"110",
> > 'LOGIN' => "account1", 'PASS' => "******" };
> > $Data[1] = { 'UID' => "Dave", 'SVR' => "mail.bost.com", 'PORT' => "110",
> > 'LOGIN' => "account2", 'PASS' => "*****" };
> > my $i = 0;
> >
> > sub Startup {
> >     while (1) {
> >       Win32::Sleep(4000);
> >         foreach my $account (@Data)
> >         {
> >                 if(!open(T,"".$account->{'UID'}.".acc"))
> >                 {
> >   		Win32::Sleep(40);
> >   		if($i != 0)
> >   		{
> >   		 $i = $i + 1;
> >   		}
> >   		$thr[$i] =
> > 
>threads->new(\&go,$account->{'UID'},$account->{'SVR'},$account->{'PORT'},$account->{'LOGIN'},$account->{'PASS'});
> > 		$thr[$i]->join;
> >                 }else
> >                 {
> >                         close(T);
> >                 }
> >                 $i = $i - 1;
> >
> >         }
> >   }
> >   @AC = -1;
> > }
> >
> > Startup();
> >
> >
> >
> > sub go($$$$$) {
> > print "$_[0],$_[1],$_[2],$_[3],$_[4],$_[5],$_[6]\n";
> >
> > my $pop3C = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => 'tcp', PeerAddr => "$_[1]",
> > PeerPort => $_[2], Timeout => 60) or pop3CError ($_[1],$_[2]);
> > open(X,">".$_[1].".acc");
> > close(X);
> > print "in $_[1]\n";
> > sleep(1);
> > pop3close($pop3C);
> > $pop3C = undef;
> > unlink($_[1].".acc");
> > }
> >
> >
> > sub pop3CError ($$) {
> >
> > print "Cannot connect to the the Pop3 server:$_[0], port:$_[1]\n";
> > exit;
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> > sub pop3close ($) {
> > 	if ($_[0]) {
> > 	 shutdown ($_[0], 2);
> > 	}
> > }
> > #-----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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