Hi, fellow monks!

I stumbled over a problem I cant solve myself. This code works as its supposed on Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD.
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use constant MYPORT => 2000;

my $sock = '';
my $client = '';

$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort => MYPORT,
                              Type      => SOCK_STREAM,
                              Proto     => 'tcp',
                              Reuse     => 1,
                              Listen    => 10)
or die "trouble creating socket: $@\n";

$SIG{'CHLD'} = sub { wait();  $client->close(); };
print "Accepting connections on Port ", MYPORT, "...\n";
while ($client = $sock->accept())
  {
  print "Accepted connection from ",
        $client->peerhost(), ":", $client->peerport(), "\n";

  if (fork() == 0)
    {
    while (<$client>)
      {
      chomp;
      print $client scalar(reverse($_)), "\n";
      }
    exit 1;
    }
  }

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However, under Perl 5.8.5 on FreeBSD 4.10 the parent process is killed as soon as the child closes the socket. Strangely enough, its running fine under perl 5.00503 which is Standard with FreeBSD 4.10. Before I forget, perl 5.8.5 was compiled from the ports.
We have run of ideas where to look for the error, any hint is appreciated.

TIA,
Gnork

cat /dev/world | perl -e "(/(^.*? \?) 42\!/) && (print $1))"
errors->(c)

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