Also, your NUM_CHLDS is either a misnomer, or your usage creates one more child than you intended.

You could make your loop more perl-ish by re-writing it as: 

for(1 .. $NUM_CHLDS) {
  push @pids, my $pair  = { child_fh  => undef,
                            parent_fh => undef,
                            pid       => undef
                          };
  socketpair($pair->{child_fh},$pair->{parent_fh},
    AF_UNIX,SOCK_STREAM,PF_UNSPEC) or die "socketpair at $_: $!\n";
.....

#For Reading the @pids array, instead of for(0 .. $NUM_CHLDS) , use:
foreach my $pair(@pids)
{
  close $pair->{parent_fh};
  syswrite($pair->{child_fh},$line,LINE_LEN);
}

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In reply to Re: Socketpair and a lot of children by NetWallah
in thread Socketpair and a lot of children by bockman

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