Instead of implementing a limited cooperative multitasking system using select, it's simpler to use threads or Coro.

The following is the Coro equivalent of the code in the parent post. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Coro             qw( async );
use IO::Socket::INET qw( );

sub client {
    my ($sock) = @_;

    my $host = $client->peerhost;
    print "[Accepted connection from $host]\n";

    while (!eof($sock)) {
        my $msg = <$sock>;
        if (!defined($msg)) {
            print "[Error reading from host $host]\n";
            return;
        }

        print "$host said '$msg'\n";
        last if $msg eq 'quit';
    }

    print "[Connection from $host terminated]\n";
}

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

async(\&client, $server->accept) while 1;

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