List,

From the TCP client with IO::Socket on the perlipc page I have made the
following:

# Server code
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket;
use Net::hostent;
use Sys::Hostname 'hostname';

$|++;
my $Port = 1971;
my $Host = hostname();
my $Server = IO::Socket::INET-> new(Proto => 'tcp', LocalPort => $Port,
Listen =>  SOMAXCONN, Reuse => 1);
die "Can't setup Server" unless $Server;
print "[Server $Host accepting Clients]\n";

while(my $Client = $Server-> accept())
{
	$Client-> autoflush(1);
	print $Client "Connected to $Host\n";
	my $HostInfo = gethostbyaddr($Client-> peeraddr);
	printf "[Connect from %s]\n", $HostInfo-> name ||
$Client-> peerhost;

	while(<$Client> )
	{
		print $Client `$_` if /^dir/i;
		print $_;
		last;
	}
	close $Client;
}

######################################################################

# Client code
#!/usr/local/bin/nsPerl5.005_03/nsperl -w

use strict;
use IO::Socket;

my ($KidPID, $Line);
my $Port = '1971';
my $Host = '123.123.123.123';

my $Handle = IO::Socket::INET-> new(Proto => 'tcp', PeerAddr => $Host,
PeerPort =>  $Port) or die "Cant connect to $Host on $Port:- $!";
$Handle-> autoflush(1);
die "Cant fork: $!" unless defined($KidPID = fork());

if($KidPID)
{
	while(defined($Line = <$Handle> ))
	{
		print STDOUT $Line;
	}
	kill("TERM", $KidPID);
}
else
{
	print $Handle 'dir d:';

	#while(defined($Line = <STDIN> ))
	#{
	#	print $Handle $Line;
	#}
}

I can get connectivity between the two machines, and with the while
uncommented on the client I can key in "dir d:" and a get a response
from the server.

However what I really need is code that fires off a command from the
client with arguments (without keying it in from STDIN), which can then
be picked up by the server, processed and then returned to the client,
closing the client/connection after the return of data, rather than the
continuous interactive example that I borrowed this code from.


I guess the else in my client is the show stopper because my xterm just
sits there. And when I control C the xterm client the server flushes out
the "dir d:" string to the terminal. So I further guess that I need to
close/kill one of the processes that fork spawns in order for it to
return, but I'm not sure how.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Just in

P.S./ The client sits on a Solaris machine (Perl 5.5 binary dist), while
my server is on Win2003 server (AS 5.6). 

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