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some further findings:

I was able to boil this down to the REAPER, using $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'; works like a charm but is not what I want

reaping (a.k.a. calling waitpid()) in the parent-part of the while loop also works, but will not clean up often enough

I also debugged this with -d now and it seems that the REAPER-sub throws the server out of the while loop

NOW: this is all pretty much what is in the docs, camelbook etc., but does not seem to work... --- no ideas out there???
Regards,
svenXY

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