Well I downloaded your code and tried to run it. When the server starts it gives an errror: 
Useless use of a variable in void context at ./threaded-chat-server li
+ne 120.
Useless use of a variable in void context at ./threaded-chat-server li
+ne 120.

Which is:
%E = ( map { $1 => $2; /(.+):(.+)/ } ( split /;/, $Elm ) );

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I see there are alot of warnings when trying to print to clients, about unitialized values. I tried connecting 3 clients. The server reported the 3 connections, but when I sent something from the clients, it was not printed unless I hit enter twice, but that's minor. More serious: there was no chat-echo back to any client, but the line feeds were echoed if I hit enter repeatedly. So there is a connection and this is promising. So this thing is far from ready to go. If I manage to get it working over the holidays, I'll post it as a snippet. I did observe the problem you are talking about. I start 3 clients and send some messages, Then I kill all clients and then restart them. If I send from client 2 or 3, all goes well; but as soon as I try to send from client1, the whole thing just crashes taking all clients with it. I tried one of these threaded servers before, and didn't get as far as you did, so it looks hopeful. Thanks for posting your code.

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