Re^2: How to do simultaneous reads and writes to/from a socket?

[sonofason]

Thanks for the replies. I'll try your suggestions. In the meantime, here is some example code illustrating what I am doing:

use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;
use IO::Socket;

my $keep_running : shared = 1;

my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => "127.0.0.1", PeerPort =
+> 8080, Type => SOCK_STREAM, Proto => 'tcp');

my $sender_thread = threads->new(\&do_send, $socket);
my $listener_thread = threads->new(\&do_listen, $socket);

$sender_thread->detach();
$listener_thread->join();

$socket->close();

sub do_listen {
    my $sock = shift;

    STDOUT->autoflush(1);
    
    while ($keep_running) {
        my $message = $sock->getline();
        last unless defined($message);
        print $message;
    }
}


sub do_send {
    my $sock = shift;
    
    while (my $line = <STDIN>) {
        $sock->print($line);
        $sock->flush();
    }

    $keep_running = 0;
}