If you create the socket on the "main" thread and then when creating the "child" threads you pass the socket object as parameter it works as expected as sockets survive thread cloning.
You don't even need shared variables for this to work: 
use warnings;
use strict;
use threads;
use IO::Socket;

my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(); # pass your parameters

threads->create(\&do_stuff, $socket);

sleep(0xffffffff); # ;-)

sub do_stuff {
  my ($socket) = @_;
  # play happily ever after with $socket in your new thread
}

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Note that this is code is untested, but I'm sure it works because I've got production code like this at work. Actually, it's slightly different, the thread creation doesn't use the "standard parameter passing procedure", so although I can't guarantee the above will work, I'm completely sure that this works: 
threads->create(sub { do_stuff($socket) });

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But I guess it should work both ways.


acid06
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