Slimmed down my code to an (obvious) test case... which (thankfully) fails. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# server

package Server;

use strict;
use base qw(Net::Server::Fork);

my $server = bless {
                    server => {
                               port => 8097,
                               log_level => 4,
                              },
                   }, 'Server';
$server->run();
exit;

sub process_request {
    my $self = shift;

    my $x = Feeder->new();
    my $line = $x->get_line();
    print "Line = $line\n";
}

package Feeder;

use strict;
use IO::Pipe;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;

    my $pipe = IO::Pipe->new();
    $pipe->reader('cat', '/home/ben/foo/client');
    my $self = {
                PIPE => $pipe,
               };
    return bless $self, $class;
}

sub get_line {
    my $self = shift;

    my $fh = $self->{PIPE};
    return scalar(<$fh>);
}

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And, the corresponding client, 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# client

use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerHost => 'localhost',
                                 PeerPort => 8097,
                                 Proto => 'tcp',
                                );
die "Unable to connect" unless $sock->connected();

while (<$sock>) {
    print "Got: >$_<\n";
}

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I can't see that there's anything wrong with any of the above, although I'd love to be convinced otherwise...

In reply to Re: (Seemingly) Broken interactions between Net::Server and IO::Pipe? by bmcatt
in thread (Seemingly) Broken interactions between Net::Server and IO::Pipe? by bmcatt

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