Hello wise monks. I need to write code that will stay connected to another server continuously 24x7. Will the following code do the job? Or should I use infinite loops? If so, how? 
use IO::Socket;
use strict;


my $socket;
my $line;
my $child_pid;


$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new
(
  PeerAddr => 'server.com',
  PeerPort => 1247,
  Proto    => "tcp",
  Type     => SOCK_STREAM
) or die "Could not create client.\n";


unless (defined($child_pid = fork())) {die "Cannot fork.\n"};
if ($child_pid)
{
  while($line = <>)
  {
    #here I'm gonna make the server read some files and 
    #throw stuff to the other socket
  }
}
else
{
  while ($line = <$socket>)
  {

    #here I'm gonna make the server listen for stuff from
    #the other socket. The information that comes from this
    #connection will be store in files that will be accessed
    #by the parent process.  Is this gonna work? 24x7?
    #Non-stop?
  }
}

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Thanks

In reply to Need Help with Sockets, Please by Gorby

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