Two problems:

• You don't flush your output (Suffering from buffering)
• You instruct the programs to read until a newline is received, but you don't send newlines.

By the way, IO::Socket::UNIX is a much cleaner interface.

Update: Working code:

Server:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w -T

use strict;

use IO::Socket::UNIX qw( SOCK_STREAM SOMAXCONN );

my $socket_path = '/tmp/wibble';
unlink($socket_path);

my $listner = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(
   Type   => SOCK_STREAM,
   Local  => $socket_path,
   Listen => SOMAXCONN,
)
   or die("Can't create server socket: $!\n");

my $socket = $listner->accept()
   or die("Can't accept connection: $!\n");

chomp( my $line = <$socket> );
print qq{Client Sez "$line"\n};
print $socket "Same to ya, fella\n";
[download]

Client:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w -T

use strict;

use IO::Socket::UNIX qw( SOCK_STREAM );

my $socket_path = '/tmp/wibble';

my $socket = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(
   Type => SOCK_STREAM,
   Peer => $socket_path,
)
   or die("Can't connect to server: $!\n");

print $socket "Wibble\n";
chomp( my $line = <$socket> );
print qq{Server Sez "$line"\n};
[download]

Note that IO::Socket::UNIX turns on autoflushing on the socket for you.

Note that SOMAXCONN is silly if you only ever accept one connection.

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