accept

accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET

Accepts an incoming socket connect, just as the accept(2) system call does. Returns the packed address if it succeeded, false otherwise. See the example in perlipc/"Sockets: Client/Server Communication".

On systems that support a close-on-exec flag on files, the flag will be set for the newly opened file descriptor, as determined by the value of $^F. See perlvar/$^F.