My opinion on threads is, if you're not sure exactly why you're choosing them, don't.

What I use for networking interfaces that need to be powerful is IO::Select and Tie::RefHash. Here is an example: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket;
use IO::Select;
use Tie::RefHash;

my ( %connections );
tie %connections, qw( Tie::RefHash ); # so we can use refs as hash key
+s

my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                   Listen    => SOMAXCONN,
                   LocalPort => $opts{port},
                   Reuse     => 1,
                   Proto     => 'tcp',
                  )
  or die "can't open connection: $!";
$server->blocking( 0 );

my $select = IO::Select->new( $server );

while('eternity'){
    foreach my $con ( $select->can_read(1) ) {
    #another way is to let it block, instead of passing can_read a tim
+eout, but I usually need to check state, maybe send new output, so I 
+need to loop often

    if ( $con == $server ) {
        # looks like we have a new user connection
        $client->blocking( 0 );
        $select->add( $client );
            #whatever you want to store about the client can go in the
+ value, I like using a hashref so I'm not limited
        $connections{$client}{ip} = $client->peerhost;
    }
    elsif ( exists $connections{$con} ) {
        # I guess it's a connected user sending us data
        ...
    }
    else {
        #whoops, unknown filehandlw
    }
}

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An excellent example of Tie::RefHash and IO::Select can be found in the Perl IRC Daemon.
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In reply to Re: Threads, Forks, or Nothing? by Aighearach
in thread Threads, Forks, or Nothing? by rapier1

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