In order to give a full response we would need to know more. Is the data you are reading line based ? Does the app need to read from more than one connection at a time ?

Depending on what your answers are will change how many short-cuts you can take.

If this is just a simple app that reads a line based datastream from just the one socket then you can do

while(<$clientfd>) {
  last if /^EOS$/;
  # process line
}
close($clientfd);
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But if you want to read from more than one socket at a time then you will need to use sysread and select