Accepts an incoming socket connect, just asaccept(2) does. Returns the packed address if it succeeded, false otherwise. See the example in"Sockets: Client/Server Communication" in perlipc.
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$^F. See"$^F" in perlvar.
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