perl-IO-Event

Tied Filehandles for Nonblocking IO with Object Callbacks

IO::Event provides a object-based callback system for handling nonblocking IO. The design goal is to provide a system that just does the right thing w/o the user needing to think about it much. All APIs are kept as simple as possible yet at the same time, all functionality is accesible if needed. Simple things are easy. Hard things are possible. Most of the time file handling syntax will work fine: '<$filehandle>' and 'print $filehandle 'stuff''. IO::Event provides automatic buffering of output (with a callback to throttle). It provides automatic line-at-a-time input. After initial setup, call 'IO::Event::loop()'. IO::Event was originally written to use the Event manpage. IO::Event still defaults to using the Event manpage but it can now use the AnyEvent manpage or its own event loop.