IO::Socket uses IO::Select? You may want to re-evaluate this. Socket was never based on selector. If one is from c background, will right the way find this false.

Update: saintmike was right and I was wrong. Perl's IO::Socket does require IO::Select at two places: accept and connect.

I tried this code and it returned after 1 second as expected:

use IO::Socket;
use strict;
use warnings;

print time(), "\n";
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => "tcp", LocalAddr => "local
+host", LocalPort => 3000, Listen => 10, Timeout => 0.1);
for (1 .. 10) {
    my $connection = $socket->accept();
}
print time(), "\n";

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