I havn't tried to run your code yet, but I have been playing around with socket servers, including threaded, forked, and selected. What I have found is if you want to make a chat style server, where the output from the clients is echoed to all the other clients, you should use select or IO::Select methods in the server. With a forked or threaded server, it gets pretty complicated to try and "share" the data between different forked or threaded servers. I observed the forked server or threaded server, gets a copy of the parent's variables, when it gets created. So for example, the third spawned threaded-server will be able to write to numbers 1 and 2, but 1 and 2 cannot write to 3, because server 3 didn't exist in the parent when they were created.

If you have threads::shared working in a fashion that updates all threads when a new thread is created, properly passing the new socket, I would like to see it and play with it.

Otherwise I have a couple of chat servers using IO::Select or plain select, I could post for you.

Do you have a place to post your whole code? So we can download and test it?

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