There's a lot of guff and bluster around on this subject. And a lot of it comes from otherwise rational and reliable sources.
I needed a quick "concurrent clients" socket server for testing another piece of code against, so I knocked this up:
#! perl -slw
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use threads;
our $ADDR ||= 'localhost:35007';
my $listener = IO::Socket::INET->new(
LocalAddr => $ADDR,
Listen => 5,
Reuse => 1,
) or die $^E;
while( my $client = $listener->accept ) {
async {
my($port, $iaddr) = sockaddr_in( getpeername( $client ) );
printf "From %s:%d: %s", join('.',unpack 'C4', $iaddr ), $port
+, $_
while <$client>;
close $client;
}->detach;
}
Simplistic, but it easily keeps up with 5 of these each fowarding the traffic from 100 monitored log files, so it didn't need to be any more complex.
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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