#!/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