Can anyone please help with the following question?

Net::OpenSSH creates a named socket for each connection, and I've noticed that it conveniently removes the named socket when the parent process dies.

I'm trying to use Net::OpenSSH and fork() in combination to perform the same operations on multiple target servers, in parallel. For example,

# Open connections
for my $server (@targets) {
   $ssh{$server} = new Net::OpenSSH($server, ...);
}

# Do stuff in parallel
for my $server (@targets) {
   my $pid = fork();
   if ($pid) {
      $pid{$server} = $pid;
   } else {
      # In child process. Do stuff
      $ssh{$server}->system( stuff );
      ...
      exit 0;
   }
}
waitpid($pid{$_}) for @targets;

# Do more stuff ...
for my $server (@targets) {
   $ssh->system (more stuff);
}

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The problem I'm encoountering is that whenever any of the children exit, Net::OpenSSH seems to be removing all of the named sockets. Essentially, it disconnects all connections that were opened in the parent process. I can work around the problem be reconnecting after the waitpid's, but reconnecting takes additional runtime.

Is there any way I can tell Net::OpenSSH not to clean up the named sockets when the child processes exit, but only when the parent exits?

In reply to Net::OpenSSH and fork() by scotchie

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