I am working on a perl gnutella client (yes, if it ever becomes useful I will let people know...) and I am trying to make a child process which tries to make connections to new servents, passing the socket back to the parent on success. Since many connection attempts fail this would allow the existing connections to go on their merry way while bad connections were timing out, etc...

My problem is that I don't know how to pass the socket... I have an idea it has to do with the fileno of the socket, but I have been looking around and either there are no examples out there or I can't find the right question. Can this be done, and, if possible, can it be done and still use IO::Socket on the parent side?

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In reply to Passing a socket to a parent by suaveant

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