NAME

POE::XS::Loop::Poll - an XS implementation of POE::Loop, using poll(2).

SYNOPSIS

  use POE::Kernel { loop => 'POE::XS::Loop::Poll' };

DESCRIPTION

This class is an implementation of the abstract POE::Loop interface written in C using the poll(2) system call.

Signals are left to POE::Loop::PerlSignals.

SEE ALSO

POE, POE::Kernel, POE::Loop.

BUGS

Relies upon small fd numbers, but then a lot of code does.

Will fail badly if your code uses POE from more than one Perl thread.

poll() on OS X doesn't support ptys, hence POE::XS::Loop::Poll won't work with ptys on OS X.

If you see an error:

  POE::XS::Loop::Poll hasn't been initialized correctly

then the loop hasn't been loaded correctly, in POE <= 1.287 the following:

  # this doesn't work
  use POE qw(XS::Loop::Poll);

will not load the loop correctly, you will need to do:

  use POE::Kernel { loop => 'POE::XS::Loop::Poll' };
  use POE;

LICENSE

POE::XS::Loop::Poll is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Tony Cook <tonyc@cpan.org>

sub skip_tests {
$ENV{POE_EVENT_LOOP} = "POE::XS::Loop::Poll";
$ENV{POE_LOOP_USES_POLL} = 1;
return; }