I am writing my test harnesses and I'd like one script to make a server and then run the client against the server. Server creation happens fine, and the client connects and does it's stuff fine, but termination (i.e. completion/exiting) never happens. I suspect this is because of open filehandles/sockets, but I can't work out how to fix it. An extract of the relevant forking code is below -- any advice? (full code in http://search.cpan.org/author/NATE/WWW-SearchBroker-0.07/, extract from Broker.pm) 
        carp '[BROKER: Forking infinite loop]' if DEBUG >= DEBUG_MEDIU
+M;
        my $ret;
        if ($ret = fork()) {
                carp "[BROKER: Parent returning (child PID=$ret)]" if 
+DEBUG >= D
EBUG_MEDIUM;
                # perldoc -f fork tells us to reopen to /dev/null, wil
+l this wor
k?
                close($self->{_server});
                $self->DESTROY;
                return $ret;
        }
        carp '[BROKER: Child looping]' if DEBUG >= DEBUG_MEDIUM;
        while ($self->event_loop())
                { }
        return undef;

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In reply to Forking with a socket by natebailey

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