Have you heard of the concept of simplifying to a small test case? Anyway that said AFAIKS the problem is that in your incredibly misnamed new_thread routine you are doing this: 

if ( $pid = fork() ) {
    $threads++;  # you mean kids
  return $pid
}
# this is kid code
# kid does socket but.....then......
exit($result);

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So the child process is exiting but you are not decrementing the '$thread' count, at least in the code presented. Nor are you communicating its death to the parent. So the reason you are getting a no children error is simple -> *there are no children* because they have finished but the parent simply does not know it.

At a glance I don't see how you think the IPC between parent and child is going to work, and given the length of your sample and what I find really inaccurate and annoying names (ie a forked kid is not a thread) a glance is all it is going to get. When you fork parent and child get copies of all data and handles. Independent* copies so if the kid does stuff to the data the parents data remains unchanged.

* yes I understand COW.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: mixing multisockets and forks by tachyon
in thread mixing multisockets and forks by fxmakers

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