Connection from 127.0.0.1:2002 Invalid value for shared scalar at ./threads.pl line 47. #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w $|++; use strict; use IO::Socket; use threads; use threads::shared; our %clients : shared; our $i : shared = 0; my $log = "$ENV{HOME}/games/aardwolf/.aard.log"; my $port = shift; my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalPort => $port, Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 1 ) or die "Couldn't be a tcp server on port $port: $@\n"; threads(\&handle_clients($server))->detach; open LOG, $log or die $!; while (my $line = ) { lock %clients; for my $i (keys %clients) { unless (defined $clients{$i}->connected) { delete $clients{$i}; next; } $clients{$i}->print($line); } } close LOG; sub handle_clients { my $server = shift; while (my $client = $server->accept) { lock $i; ++$i; my $client_addr = peerinfo($client); print "Connection from $client_addr\n"; lock %clients; $clients{$i} = $client; } } sub peerinfo { my $client = shift; my $other_end = getpeername($client); my ($port, $iaddr) = unpack_sockaddr_in($other_end); my $ip = inet_ntoa($iaddr); return "$ip:$port"; }