I just tested your code on Linux 2.0.36 / Perl 5.005_02 and it worked just fine (the server program does not exit).
Hm... interesting.
You may want to try using lsof
Will do.
How does it behave if you connect 2 clients to it?
It exits after the first one disconnect. Even when I run it under the debugger, after returning from the signal handler the accept call exits. Since it did not return with a new socket, the loop terminates. What I think it should be doing is restarting the accept call automatically, as supposedly most modern Unices do.
Are you running the most current version of IO::Socket
Yes. Version 1.25.
Try setting your SIGCHLD handler to: $SIG{CHLD}='IGNORE'
I did already (I mentioned it in my original post). With that, the program behaves perfectly. That's what gave me the definite indication that it was the return from the signal handler that was messing things up.

Thanks for your time, and for the lsof pointer. Any other ideas will be very appreciated!

--ZZamboni

In reply to RE: Re: SIGCHLD interrupting accept call? by ZZamboni
in thread SIGCHLD interrupting accept call? by ZZamboni

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