Monks! I throw myself at your infinite wisdom and mercy, to end my suffering! For about a week now I've been fighting with this small bit of code, reading anything I can find about it, and am certain it's something really simple/obvious I'm missing. This piece of code here, which I've assembled from examples from here, books, etc, works wonderfully for a threaded tcp server reading data. However, when a timeout occurs the while loop just continues forever. I know there should be a "connection reset by peer" or some error popping up, but nothing does, and thusly the thread never dies. Spare my poor lungs, they can't take anymore furious chainsmoking while yelling at the screen! 
vec($rin,fileno($self),1) = 1;
vec($ein,fileno($self),1) = 1;
vec($win,fileno($self),1) = 1;

while(1)
 {
 ($found) = select($rout=$rin,$wout=$win,$eout=$ein,1);
 if($found)
  {
  my $rc = sysread($in,$buf,1024);
  if(defined $rc) { # non-error
   if ($rc > 0) 
    {  # read successful
    print "Got $buf\n";
    runplayer($self,$buf,$out);
    }
   else
    { # end of file
    print "EOF\n";
    last;
    }
   } 
  else 
   {
   print "sysread() error: $!\n";
   last;
   }
  }
 }

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In reply to Threaded sockets, etc. by daveb

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