Can't read from socket in perl - possible deadlock? - perl

Question

My OS is Archlinux with perl 5.14.2. I am just trying to write a little program to accomplish a remote comlile. The program just passes a C source file to the server. The server will call gcc to compile the C code and pass the compiler's message. The client can't receive the compiler's message. I have the message in the server.
There is the code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# oj.pl --- alpha
use warnings;
use strict;
use IO::File;
use IO::Socket;
use constant MY_TRAN_PORT => 138000;
$| = 1;
my $tmpFileToBeCompiled = IO::File->new ("> tmpFile09090989.c") or die "Can't creat this file";
#if (defined $tmpFileToBeCompiled) {
# print $tmpFileToBeCompiled "argh"; # just for test!
#}
# $fihi->close;
my $port = shift || MY_TRAN_PORT;
my $sock_server = IO::Socket::INET->new (Listen => 20,
LocalPort => $port,
Timeout => 60,
Reuse => 1)
or die "Can't create listening socket: $!\n";
my $tmp = 1;
while ($tmp) {
next unless my $session = $sock_server->accept;
my $peer = gethostbyaddr ($session->peeraddr, AF_INET)
|| $session->peerhost;
warn "Connection from [$peer, $port]\n";
while (<$session>) {
print $tmpFileToBeCompiled $_; # if it works, the filehandle should be changed into tmpFile. just fixed.
print $session "test!";
}
my #lines = `gcc tmpFile09090989.c 2>&1`;
foreach ( #lines) {
print $session $_ . "test!!!\n";
# $session->print;
}
print "OK!";
$tmpFileToBeCompiled->close;
warn "Connecting finished!\n";
$session->close;
$tmp --;
}
$sock_server->close;
----------------------------------------end--------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------client.pl--------------------------------------------------------
use warnings;
use strict;
use IO::Socket qw(:DEFAULT);
use File::Copy;
use constant MY_TRAN_PORT => 138000;
use IO::File;
my $host = shift || '127.0.0.1';
my $port = shift || MY_TRAN_PORT;
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new("$host:$port") or die $#;
my $fh = IO::File->new("a.c", "r");
my $child = fork();
die "Can't fork: $!\n" unless defined $child;
# if (!$child) {
# $SIG{CHLD} = sub { exit 0 };
# userToHost();
# print "Run userToHost done!\n";
# $socket->shutdown(1);
# sleep;
# } else {
# hostToUser();
# print "Run hostToUser done! \n";
# warn "Connection closed by foreign host\n";
# }
userToHost();
unless ($child) {
hostToUser();
print "Run hostToUser done! \n";
warn "Connection closed by foreign host\n";
$socket->close;
}
sub userToHost {
while (<$fh>) {
# print $_; # for debug
print $socket $_;
}
}
sub hostToUser {
while (<$socket >) {
print $_;
}
}
# copy ("a.c", $socket) or die "Copy failed: $!";
print "Done!";

Answer 1

You don't need to fork in client. At all. Just like themel said
You have error in client code: <$socket > should be <$socket>
You need to notify server that you have written all data and server can start compilation. Otherwise server will stuck at while (<$session>) forever.
To achieve this you could call shutdown($socket, 1) which means you finished writing. See perldoc -f shutdown
Final prototype (very rough) could look like this: https://gist.github.com/19b589b8fc8072e3cfff

Answer 2

yko nailed it, but let me just suggest that your task will be solved in a much easier and more maintainable way by a shell script running from inetd.