[MacPerl] Detecting Socket Disconnect?

[rz10@cornell.edu (Ray Zimmerman)]

If I write standard socket code (i.e. TCP client/server from perlipc man
page) on Unix Perl will it run on MacPerl (assuming I'm not trying to write
a forking server or something)?

And what's the *right* way to detect that a socket I'm using is no longer
connected to anyone ... i.e. the other end went away?  Would this be
different in Mac/Unix Perl?

Thanks much,

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