#!/usr/bin/perl5.8.8 -w use strict; use warnings; use threads; use IO::Socket qw(:DEFAULT :crlf); my $host = shift || 'localhost'; my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => 'ftp', Proto => 'tcp', Type => SOCK_STREAM, Timeout => 5 ) or die "Couldn't connect to remote host: $@\n"; ioctl( $socket, 0x8004667e, \1 ); my $listenerThread = threads->create(\&listener, $socket) or die "$@\n"; while () { chomp; print $socket $_, CRLF; }; exit(0); sub listener($) { my $s = shift; my $data; $/ = CRLF; while( 1 ) { ## try to read something. my $read = sysread($s, $data, 2048); ## Quit if sysread gave an error (returned undef) other than 10035 ## 10035 => A non-blocking socket operation could not be completed immediately last unless defined $read or 0+$^E == 10035; ## If there was nothing to read, sleep a while and retry sleep 1 and redo unless $read; ## Got something, so display it syswrite(STDOUT, $data); } print "\nListener exiting\n"; }; __END__