in reply to poe/win32/fork/threads chat-application

Take a look at Re: How to do simultaneous reads and writes to/from a socket?, it may give you some clues as to how to get started doing this with threads.

A word of warning though. If you are serious about using threads, upgrade from 5.8.0 to at least 5.8.4 and preferably later.

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