Hello everybody, I ended up, thanks to tybalt89, with this (client):

### tcp client 

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings 'all';
$|= 1;

my $n= shift || 2;
my $active= 0;

sub getFromProducer {
  use IO::Socket::INET;

  my($socket, $data);
  $socket= new IO::Socket::INET (
    PeerHost=> '127.0.0.1',
    PeerPort=> '5000',
    Proto=> 'tcp'
  ) or die "ERROR in Socket creation: $!\n";
  $socket->autoflush(1);
  $data= <$socket>;
  chomp($data);
  print $socket "received\n";
  $socket->close();
  return $data;
}

print "Client started.\n";
while(my $data= &getFromProducer) {
  if($active<$n) {
    if(my $pid= fork) {
      $active++;
    } elsif(defined($pid)) {
      print ". Got $data.\n";
      select(undef, undef, undef, int(rand()*10)+1);
      exit
    } else {
      die "Cannot fork: $!\n";
    }
  }
  if($active==$n) {
    wait;
    $active--;
  }
}
print "Client finished.\n";

# vim: set nohls nowrap ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et ft=perl:

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TheMagician.

PS. I have divided the client from the server, because in my PoC the clients are placed into a different host than the server.

In reply to Re: fork always 'n' processes. by TheMagician
in thread fork always 'n' processes. by TheMagician

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