Other than what others have already pointed out, I doubt that you need thread. My guess is that the reason you use thread, is to monitor multiple sockets at the same time. A better idea is to use IO::Select.

The following code demoes this. Just run one instance of the server and two instances of the client. Observe how the server receives messages from both clients without threading.

Server:

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Select;
use IO::Socket::INET;

my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => "tcp", LocalAddr => "local
+host", LocalPort => 3000, Listen => 10);
my $selector = IO::Select->new();
{
    my $connection = $server->accept();
    print "First client connected\n";
    $selector->add($connection);
}
{
    my $connection = $server->accept();
    print "Second client connected\n";
    $selector->add($connection);
}

while (1) {
    for my $reader ($selector->can_read()) {
        my $line = <$reader>;
        print $line;
    }
}

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Client:

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Socket::INET;
use IO::Select;

my $connection = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => "localhost", PeerPo
+rt => 3000, Proto => "tcp");

for (1 .. 100) {
    print $connection "$_\n";
    sleep(1);
}

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In reply to Re: Issue with time() in loop? by pg
in thread Issue with time() in loop? by Elijah

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