has _receive_data_buffer => (is => 'ro', default => sub { my $x = ''; \$x });
+#TODO confirmed this is the point of the hang - sysread() is invoked on a
+#socket inside the controller that blocks and deadlocks the entire system.
+#The remote nodes are all waiting to receive data at that point.
+#Validated this behavior exists in an unmodified Object::Remote from CPAN
+#by wrapping this sysread() with warns that have the pid in them and pounding
+#my local machine with System::Introspector via ssh and 7 remote perl instances
+#It looks like one of the futures is responding to an event regarding the ability
+#to read from a socket and every once in a while an ordering issue means that
+#there is no actual data to read from the socket
sub _receive_data_from {
my ($self, $fh) = @_;
log_trace { "Preparing to read data" };
+ #use Carp qw(cluck); cluck();
my $rb = $self->_receive_data_buffer;
+ #TODO is there a specific reason sysread() and syswrite() aren't
+ #a part of ::MiniLoop? It's one spot to handle errors and other
+ #logic involving filehandles
+ #TODO why are the buffers so small? BUFSIZ is usually 32768
my $len = sysread($fh, $$rb, 1024, length($$rb));
my $err = defined($len) ? '' : ": $!";
if (defined($len) and $len > 0) {