I am presuming that the commands you are running via remsh are _not_ trying to read STDIN. If they did, they would detect EOF when the remote process ended (or otherwise closed the socket), so they should exit normally.

Assuming this is the case, you should have a process use select() or IO::Select::can_read to monitor the socket. Without knowing which O/S and version of Perl you are running this on, I can't promise this will work, but my suggestion would be to try this:

Right before you do the open(RCMD,...), fork().
Have the parent do a can_read on STDIN.
Have it be prepared to receive SIGCHLD.
The child just runs the code that you give above, then exits().

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If the can_read() returns before the SIGCHLD, then the socket has closed (assuming you are not expecting more data!) and you can kill the child process.

In reply to Re: inetd spawned perl problem by Thelonius
in thread inetd spawned perl problem by vasu

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