Hello, I was wondering of there are any socket gurus who might be willing to give the following a quick glance to make sure I'm going about this the right way. This is an echo server. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use IO::Select;
use IO::Socket;
use strict;

$|++;

my $port   = 9999;
my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new (
                 Proto     => 'tcp',
                 LocalPort => $port,
                 Listen    => SOMAXCONN,
                 Reuse     => 1);

(! $server) && die "Could not setup server - $!\n";
$server->autoflush(1);

while (my $client = $server->accept()) {
   my $request;
   my $selector = IO::Select->new($client);
   if ($selector->can_read(10)) {
      my $buffer;
      while (sysread($client, $buffer, 1024)) {
         $request .= $buffer;
      }
   } else {
      print "Selector *cannot* read or timed out after 10 seconds.\n";
      next;
   }
   #print $request, "\n";
   syswrite($client, $request);
   $client->shutdown(1);
}

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Specifically I'm wondering if sysread and syswrite are what are should be using. I've seen server code that uses while (<$client>) { instead of sysread and print $client $request instead of syswrite. I think I'm confused as to which one is better.

Brutus.

In reply to socket - echo server by Anonymous Monk

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