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;
}