That's not a problem, TCP connection is full duplexed. For your application layer, you should try multi-thread, instead of fork. (Hope you are using 5.8.0)
I have some sample code using both socket and thread:
server.pl:
use strict;
use threads;
use IO::Socket::INET;
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my $listener = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort => 3126,
Listen => 5,
Reuse => 1) ||
die "Cannot create socket\n";
my $client;
my $client_num = 0;
while (1) {
$client = $listener->accept;
threads->create(\&start_thread, $client, ++ $client_num);
}
sub start_thread {
my ($client, $client_num) = @_;
print "thread created for client $client_num\n";
while (1) {
my $req;
$client->recv($req, 700000);
return if ($req eq "");
print $client $req;
}
return;
}
client.pl:
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => "tcp",
PeerPort => 3126,
PeerAddr => "localhost",
Timeout => 2000)
|| die "failed to connect\n";
for (1..100) {
print $server $_;
my $res;
$server->recv($res, 70000);
print $res;
}
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