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in reply to IO::Socket connect fails to block

Shouldn't reuse be set to null? 

ReuseAddr   Set SO_REUSEADDR before binding
Reuse       Set SO_REUSEADDR before binding (deprecated, prefer ReuseA
+ddr)

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Update: I tried you above code and it works as expected, printing out any lines "queued" up from the second client.

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