how to tell when socket breaks?

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Hi Monks,

My perl script accepts a socket connection then waits for a 2nd socket connection

   while ( my $cgiclient = $cgisock->accept() ) {....
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I need my script to stop waiting for a 2nd socket connection if the first socket connection breaks. How do I monitor both in the above wait condition?

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Re: how to tell when socket breaks? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 22, 2007 at 16:42 UTC
IO::Select can be used to monitor multiple sockets at once.	[reply]