NAME

IO::Sockatmark - Perl extension for TCP urgent data

SYNOPSIS

      use IO::Sockatmark;
      use IO::Socket;

      my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new('some_server');
      $sock->read(1024,$data) until $sock->atmark;

DESCRIPTION

This module adds the atmark() method to the standard IO::Socket class. This can be used to detect the "mark" created by the receipt of TCP urgent data.

Methods

$flag = $socket->atmark()

        The atmark() method true if the socket is currently positioned at
        the urgent data mark, false otherwise.

Exported functions

$flag = atmark($socket)

        The atmark() function returns true if the socket is currently
        positioned at the urgent data mark, false otherwise. This will work
        with an IO::Socket object, as well as with a conventional filehandle
        socket.

AUTHOR

Copyright 2001, Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>.

This module is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Feel free to use, modify and redistribute it as long as you retain the correct attribution.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), IO::Socket(3)