Greetings.

perldoc says about send: ...returns the number of characters sent, or the undefined value if there is an error.. It's not written that it can exit without message, but i met exact this one. I'm using socket communication via unix sockets, and if client part exits before server sent reply, than server just silently go away. 

eval {
  local $SIG{'ALRM'} = sub { die "time\n" };
  alarm( $self->{'_write_timeout'} );
  print "\n#1";
  $c = send $self->{'_sock'}, $buf, 0;
  print "#2";
  alarm( 0 );
};
if( $@ ){
  print "#3";
}
print "#4";

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Returns "\n#1" (only if client went away, in other situations all seem to work just fine). Spent few days reading manuals, still got no clue.

v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

In reply to "send" surprise by b888

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