#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use IO::Socket::UNIX; my $SOCK = '/home/lomig/dev/imliner/run/tst.sock'; unlink $SOCK if -e $SOCK; my $read = IO::Socket::UNIX ->new ( Local => $SOCK, Listen=> SOMAXCONN, Type => SOCK_STREAM, Reuse =>1, ); $read || die "No read socket: $!\n"; print 'Read inode = ', (stat($read->hostpath()))[1], "\n"; my $client = $read->accept(); while (<$client>) { print "read: $_"; last if $_ =~ /2/; #exit after 3rd message } $client->close(); $read->close(); exec $0; # restart itself #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use IO::Socket::UNIX; my $write = IO::Socket::UNIX ->new( Peer => '/home/lomig/dev/imliner/run/tst.sock', Type => SOCK_STREAM, ) ; $write || die "No write socket: $!\n"; for (0..2) { print 'Write connected? ', $write->connected() ? 'yes' : 'no', "\n"; print 'Write opened? ' , $write->opened() ? 'yes' : 'no', "\n"; print 'Write errored? ' , $write->error() ? 'yes' : 'no', "\n"; print 'Write peerpath: ' , $write->peerpath(), "\n"; print'inode : ' , (stat($write->peerpath()))[1], "\n"; foreach my $i (0..2) { eval {print $write "Hi $i\n";}; if ($@) {print "Write issue: $@\n";} # *never* reached } print "Go to sleep while the reader restarts itself, then loop again\n"; sleep 2; } $write->close(); #### Write connected? yes Write opened? yes Write errored? no Write peerpath: /home/lomig/dev/imliner/run/tst.sock inode : 1517896 Go to sleep while the reader restarts itself Write connected? yes Write opened? yes Write errored? no Write peerpath: /home/lomig/dev/imliner/run/tst.sock inode : 1517896