[PLUG] Working with learning Perl by Randal Schwartz...

[Michael C. Robinson]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 12:53, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 12:02, Kyle Hayes wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 October 2003 11:37, Joshua Keroes wrote:
> > > On 25 Oct 2003 01:06:22 Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> > > > It looks like I need information on how to write a perl based socket
> > > > style client and server.  I am thinking of writing the values to a
> > > > socket and have it be the shell script that changes the firewalls
> > > > on my gateways.  It doesn't take much Perl to do some nifty input
> > > > filtering.
> > >
> > > If you want to write it as a programming exercise, that's cool. If
> > > you'd like to use one of the many client-server modules on CPAN, also
> > > cool. Here's a selection:
> > >
> > > http://search.cpan.org/~mnaguib/EasyTCP-0.25/
> > >
> 
In the examples for a simple client and server what do the
lines "my $client = shift;" do?

How does serial increase with each connection?

     -- Michael Robinson.