This is a Perl, Linux, pipes, network socket question...

I have a simple server using IO::Socket, which is supposed to send one directional data to a client when they connect.

It looks like something like this...

while ( my $client = $server->accept() ) {

  open( IN, "/usr/bin/someprogram |" );

  while ( <IN> ) {
    if ( $client->connected ) {
      print $client <IN>;
    }
  }
}

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I did some debugging and it seems to die on the "print $client <IN>" line, so I added "$client->connected", and that helped the issue a little. The server now dies only on the 3rd or 4th time a client disconnects. There are no errors or warnings thrown.

The server sends data fairly rapidly, so I suspect that if the connection is closed after the "$client->connected" is performed but before the print command, it dies?

In reply to program dies when printing to closed socket, I think by HansB

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