I have a script that does
socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 6) || die "DaDa: ".$!;
# HP box has no getprotobyname ...
connect(SOCK, sockaddr_in($PORT, inet_aton($HOST))) || die "DaDa: ".$!;
at first and then occasionally writes to SOCK:
syswrite SOCK, pack 'N',((length $bla) +1);
syswrite SOCK, $bla."\n";

I donīt know what the other side is doing exactly. Seemingly it has some sort of timout after 30 seconds.
If thereīs more than 30s since the last pair of those syswrites, my script EXITS without saying anything at the 2nd one. Same thing when I use print instead of syswrite. Can you explain whatīs going on here? Is it a bug, a feature or my goof?
It is Perl 5.00503 on Linux 2.2.10 (SuSE 6.2).

In reply to Exit/Crash on write to client socket by Anonymous Monk

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