#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use IO::Socket; use IPC::Open3; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => '127.0.0.1', LocalPort => '1818', Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 1, ReuseAddr => 1, Timeout => 20 ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; our $new_sock = $sock->accept() or die "No one came!"; my $pid = open3( "<&" . fileno($new_sock), ">&STDOUT", ">&STDERR", "/bin/cat" ); waitpid( $pid, 0 );