-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.

Ah.

Well. That'd be that then. Many thanks, I've been banging my head against a wall on this one... Sure enough, store the socket in the hash, and then do a close() on that stored socket handle - Everything is happy.

JP,
-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use threads;

$| = 1;

threads->create(\&server);
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => "tcp", PeerAddr => "localh
+ost", PeerPort => 7001) || print "Socket creation error: $!\n";
sleep(5);
print "about to close socket on client side\n";
close($socket);
print "closed socket on client side\n";
print $!;

sub server {
    my $server = new IO::Socket::INET(Proto => "tcp", LocalPort => 700
+1, Listen => 5)
          || die "failed to establish socket\n";
    my $client = $server->accept;
    sleep(1);
    print "about to close socket on server side\n";
    close($client);
    print "closed socket on server side\n";
}
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