in reply to multiple socket servers

what would probably work best for you is POE, a form of user-space threading that I suspect is exactly what you're looking for.

It is a bit of a learning curve, but there's a fair amount of example code around and I think The Camel Book or The Cookbook has some useful examples

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Re^2: multiple socket servers
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 22, 2004 at 03:43 UTC
    Also there is Net::Server, both have their places and both work very well. Net::Server has a shorter learning curve in my experience.
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