Greetings fellow monks,

I have written a server program in Perl, which, running under Linux, uses IO::Socket and IO::Select to service remote messages through a socket connection.  It seems to work fine most of the time, but every once in a while the program mysteriously terminates without warning.  (It's supposed to run in an endless loop.)

Since I was unable to figure out the cause, I wrote a C wrapper which executes the Perl script in a system() call, and then reports its exit status.  By doing this I was able to determine that it's exiting due to a segmentation violation (at least on some occasions).

Has anyone else had such experiences with these modules?  Or does it sound like an unrelated problem?  Any other general ideas for tracking down the cause of this?

@ARGV=split//,"/:L"; map{print substr crypt($_,ord pop),2,3}qw"PerlyouC READPIPE provides"

In reply to Any Known Problems with IO::Socket and/or IO::Select? by liverpole

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