accept

accept newsocket, genericsocket

• Readies a server process to accept socket connections from clients. Execution is suspended until a connection is made, at which time the newsocket filehandle is opened and attached to the newly made connection. The function returns the connected address if the call succeeds, or returns false otherwise (and it puts the error code into $!). genericsocket must be a filehandle already opened via the socket function and bound to one of the server's network addresses.