Lars Ellenberg <l.g.e@web.de> wrote (Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:36:32 +0100):

be careful here!

you should *not* kill your output twin, just because no more input is available and vice versa. see, for SMTP this might work. but think of on > line coming/going out in, requesting huge amount of data. you end up killing > your twin whilst it is still processing the request.

thats why sockets are not files, and should not be close'd but > shutdown'ed.

Lars

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Lars, I have only picked up something out of my "shelf" an adapted it a little bit to gave Evert a quick - and maybe sticky (but not dirty) - solution for his problem ..... (Source: (like stated in the first email): Perl Cookbook (O'Reilly)) Kristofer