Just a thought, the sleep function is placed after the server accept, so possibly its returning after five seconds because the connection has been made, however you designed lag into the process. After the lag has cleared, the connection can continue and return.

Did you try sleeping before the server accept?

#   sleep 5;
#   while (my $conn = $server->accept()) {

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Assuming this is the case, it would depend a lot on how server implementation actually occurs. The sleep introduced after the connect would be implementing some kind of error that would likely return an error code after a short elapse of time.

The sleep placed prior, may simulate better something like multiple connection requests, such that the client is actually waiting in a queue to connect. Again it depends a lot on the system implementation.

In reply to Re: Making IO::Socket::UNIX client time out by Don Coyote
in thread Making IO::Socket::UNIX client time out by kroach

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