[Spread-users] New Perl module available: Spread::Session

[Guido van Rossum]

> I've just uploaded to CPAN an alpha version of a Perl module
> providing an OO layer on top of Spread.pm.
> 
> >From the perldoc:
> 
> SYNOPSIS  
>   use Spread::Session;
> 
> 
>   my $session = new Spread::Session;
>   $session->subscribe("mygroup");
>   $session->publish("othergroup", $message);
> 
>   $session->callbacks(message => \&message_callback,
>                       timeout => \&timeout_callback,
>                       admin => \&admin_callback);
>   my $input = $session->receive($timeout);
> 
>   sub message_callback {
>     my ($sender, $groups, $message) = @_;
>     return $message;
>   }

I'm interested in your timeout callback.  When is it called?  What
can one do in it?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)