You seem to be talking about TCP stream oriented connections. In that case, from a berkeley sockets perspective, the EOF is usually detected by a successful read of zero bytes from read(), recv(), or sysread().

Here's a short example of a tcp server that handles multiple connections and detects when they are closed. No warranties, I skipped some error checking to keep it concise. Hope it helps.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Select;
use IO::Socket;
my $s = IO::Select->new();
my $listener=IO::Socket::INET->new(Listen    => 5,
                                   LocalPort => 9999,
                                   Proto     => 'tcp');
$s->add($listener);
my $buf;
while (1) {
    # loop thru readable sockets
    for ($s->can_read()) {
        # readable event on a listener means we have a new 
        # socket connection 
        if ($_ == $listener) {
             # accept the connection and add to the select
             # object
             print "Connection...groovy\n";
             my $newsock=$listener->accept;
             $s->add($newsock);
        } else {
             # this is a "regular" socket, not the listener
             # try and read up to 512 bytes from it
             my $return=$_->sysread($buf,512); 
             if (!defined($return)) {
                  # undef from sysread means an error
                  print "error: $!\n";
                  $s->remove($_);
                  $_->close;
             } elsif ($return == 0) {
                  # 0 from sysread means the connection was closed
                  print "socket was closed\n";
                  $s->remove($_);
                  $_->close;
             } else {
                  # a positive int from sysread means
                  # we got some data
                  # change non-printables to a . char
                  $buf =~tr/\0-\37\177-377/./;           
                  print "read $return bytes from a socket [$buf]\n";
             }
        }
    }
}

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