in reply to IO socket closed when new one is opened.
Erm, are you:
- complaining that they're closing when you open a new socket (because you're using the same (global) $remote to hold the reference to the socket object; as soon as you make the next object you lose the reference to the old one and it gets destroyed and hence close() will be called on it)
- or asking if that's what will happen when you make a new IO::Socket instance?