In the following snippet of code I am accepting a connection over $socket, which was created using IO::Socket::INET->new.

The problem that I am having with it is that it will not leave the while loop until the client terminates the connection. 
($client) = $socket->accept();

my $read = "";
my $buffer;

print "DEBUG Point: 1\n";
while (read($client,$buffer,1024) > 0) {
     print "DEBUG Point: 2\n";
     $read .= $buffer;
}
print "DEBUG Point: 3\n";
print "$data \n";

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The output from the above code is: 
DEBUG Point: 1
DEBUG Point: 2

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At this point it just sits and waits. Doesn't continue looping endlessly. If i terminate the connection from the client's end if then spits out the following: 
DEBUG Point: 3
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If i send enough data through that it needs to loop several times to read it all, it will print the "DEBUG Point: 2" a couple times (as one would expect) and then just sits and wait until the client terminates the connection.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Suggestions to fix it?

What's throwing me off is that it is not looping endlessly in the while statement, it seems to just sit at the read and wait.

In reply to Sockets + Read by Anonymous Monk

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