in reply to Re^4: How to do simultaneous reads and writes to/from a socket?
in thread How to do simultaneous reads and writes to/from a socket?

Better. Try changing line 16 to: 

ioctl( $remote, 0x8004667e, do{ local $_ = 1; \$_ }  ) or die $!;

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