#! perl -slw use strict; use IO::Socket; use threads qw[ yield ]; use threads::shared; use Thread::Queue; sub worker { my $Q = shift; while( my $fnum = $Q->dequeue ) { open my $client, "+<&$fnum" or die $!; while( <$client> ) { print $client $_; print $_; } close $client; } } our $WORKERS ||= 5; my $Q = new Thread::Queue; my @workers = map threads->create( \&worker, $Q ), 1 .. $WORKERS; my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalHost=>'localhost:54321', Listen=>5, Reuse=> 1 ) or die $^E; while( my $client = $server->accept ) { my $fno = fileno( $client ); $Q->enqueue( $fno ); yield while $Q->pending; ## wait until a worker dups the socket close $client; ## Now we can safely close it. }