Probably nobody cares, but this was the fix: 
   $buf='';
   if($fh->sysread($buf,4096)>0) {
    d(2);
    $this=$Con{$fh};
    $buf=$this->{_}.$buf;
    $bn=$lbn=-1;
    while(($bn=index($buf,"\n",$bn+1)) >= 0) {
     $s=substr($buf,$lbn+1,$bn-$lbn);
     #print DEBUG  "doing <$2>\n" if $DEBUG;
     ${$Con{$fh}}{getline}($fh,$s);
     last unless $Con{$fh};  # it's possible that the connection can b
+e deleted while there's still something in the buffer
     $lbn=$bn;
    }
    d(3);
    if($Con{$fh}) {
     ($this->{_})=substr($buf,$lbn+1);
     if(length($this->{_}) > 10000) {
      d(4);
      ${$Con{$fh}}{getline}($fh,$this->{_});
      ($this->{_})='';
     }
    }
   } else {
    d(5);
    done($fh);
   }

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