I'm trying to trap the error when I've successfully created a socket on the client, but the server dies before I send the msg.

Basically, I'm hoping to keep the connection for a long time (multiple msgs), rather than create/destroy a socket for each msg, as this will be very frequent.

I've tried adding 'or die...' to the print, but that didn't work. I've also tried eval as below but no joy.

Whatever I try, the client crashes with 'Broken pipe' msg at the shell level. I need to trap/handle the error from within Perl. 

    eval
    {
    print $socket "Client msg\n";
    };
    warn "lost server $@\n" if $@;

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In reply to Trapping socket error in client when server goes away by Anonymous Monk

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