Have you looked in the perl documentation? Try looking in the perlipc manpage. There are some nice simple examples on writing IO::Socket clients and servers..

You basically want to write a server that listens to a certain port, and in each of your forked children, write an IO::Socket client which connects to that server. The server should probably also use IO::Select, which you can add a bunch of connections to, and deal with each one as and when it has data to be dealt with.

Eg: Assuming $sock1 and $sock2 are accepted client sockets on the server, and $server is the server socket: 

my $sockets = IO::Select->new();
$sockets->add($server);
$sockets->add($sock1);
$sockets->add($sock2);

while(1)
{
    my @handles = $sockets->can_read(3);
    foreach my $handle (@handles)
    {
        if($handle == $server)
        {
            # Accept new client connection from server
        }
        elsif($handle == $sock1)
        {
            # Do something with info from $sock1
        }
        elsif ... # etc etc.
    }
     # last when whenever..
}

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(Should probably keep the client sockets in an array though, easier to add/delete that way..)

Hope this makes any sense.. Post some code if you get stuck..

C.

In reply to Re: examples of IO::Socket::UNIX usage please? by castaway
in thread examples of IO::Socket::UNIX usage please? by agh

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