Here's some code for the forking server (not prefork), I'll try to wack out some code using IO::Select shortly.... 
#/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket;

$SIG{'CHLD'} = \&REAPER; #Set up our signal handler

$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalHost => '127.0.0.1', LocalPort => 9
+999, Proto
 => 'tcp', Listen => 10, Reuse => 1) || die("Couldn't create socket: $
+!\n");

while($client = $sock->accept()) {  #our loop to take the connections
 $pid = fork();
 if($pid == 0) {  #Child process, do work
  while(defined($line = <$client>)) {
   print($client->peerhost, ": said $line\n");
  }
 }
}

close($sock);

sub REAPER {
 1 until (waitpid(-1,WNOHANG) == -1); #We do it this way to avoid chil
+dren
                                      #dying before our signal handler
+ gets
                                      #reinstalled
 $SIG{'CHLD'} = \&REAPER;
}

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In reply to Re: Max Clients on a Perl Server by cephas
in thread Max Clients on a Perl Server by chorg

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