But I believe I am doing exactly that.

Imagine, for a moment the following scenario. I pinched your code above, which makes a simple way to control things. Other things - a black box. So I can send commands to your threaded example above (or something similar to it), like this: 

  http://localhost:7070/startjobs

  http://localhost:7070/canceljobs

[download]
etc.

Now, in my application, the black box controlled by your threaded server example, are jobs started and canceled (worker threads managed by Thread::Pool::Simple). They are different threads than the threads that are implementing the IO::Socket::INET -based command server. (Different in that they are doing different things; pooled worker threads, versus the threads used in the IO::Socket::INET command server itself. Ultimately they are all threads.)

Hmmm, I wonder if that is more clear than before?

In reply to Re^6: A suicidal parent OR death of a forking server (Use threads) by observer111
in thread A suicidal parent OR death of a forking server by MonkeyMonk

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