>I'm not sure what you mean by this.

it simply means youre right, i can't send to all clients at
once, or better i dont want to because it mostly senseless.

>No. select tells you when a filehandle is ready for reading or writing or when it has an error condition. You need to do the I/O yourself. It
>can be used with or without fork.

this means, I still have to fork, and then do the IPC stuff, right?
Maybe i really should consider threads, because i think
using two pipes, with two extra child for each child,
i have too much childs at the, especially if the amount of
connections is on a normal level of 20, i would have 60
processes, way too much...

Thanks so far