This a first draft if Inter-Kernel Communication for POE. It is intended as a point of reference for discusion of issues involved. As "Mythical Man Month" says : Plan to throw one away. You will need to patch POE 0.06_06 with the included patch for this to work. Order of patching : philip_gwyn-set_filter-3.patch philip_gwyn-ref_filter_type-1.patch philip_gwyn-kr_ses_IDs.2.patch Quick test : perl Makefile.PL make ./server & ./client ... and wait Better yet, run ./server and ./client in seperate windows. ./client should output a . every 10 seconds. Running many clients will give you an idea of the overhead :) IKC probably isn't worth a make install this just yet. -Philip Gwyn,