You don't have any synchronicity problem if you don't fork. So don't fork. use IO::Select instead. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Socket::INET qw( );
use IO::Select       qw( );


sub process_msg {
    my ($client, $msg) = @_;
    chomp $msg;
    my $host = $client->peerhost;
    print "$host said '$msg'\n";
    return lc($msg) ne 'quit';
}


my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    ...
) or die("Couldn't create server socket: $!\n");

my $select = IO::Select->new($server);

my %bufs;

while (my @ready = $select->can_read) {
    for my $fh (@ready) {
        if ($fh == $server) {
            my $client = $server->accept;
            $select->add($client);
            $bufs{fileno($client)} = '';

            my $host = $client->peerhost;
            print "[Accepted connection from $host]\n";
        }
        else {
            our $buf; local *buf = \$bufs{fileno($fh)};
            my $rv = sysread($fh, $buf, 64*1024, length($buf));
            if (!$rv) {
                my $host = $fh->peerhost;
                if (defined($rv)) {
                    print "[Error reading from host $host]\n";
                } else {
                    print "[Connection from $host terminated]\n";
                }
                process_msg($fh, $buf) if length($buf);
                delete $bufs{fileno($fh)};
                $sel->remove($fh);
                next;
            }

            while ($buf =~ s/\G(.*\n)//) {
                if (!process_msg($fh, "$1")) {
                    my $host = $fh->peerhost;
                    print "[Connection from $host terminated]\n";
                    delete $bufs{fileno($fh)};
                    $sel->remove($fh);
                    last;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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In reply to Re: A suicidal parent OR death of a forking server by ikegami
in thread A suicidal parent OR death of a forking server by MonkeyMonk

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