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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:59:17 +0100
From:      Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-freebsd-questions@biaix.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: trouble with perl writing to pipes :(
Message-ID:  <20021110175917.GA11841@grummit.biaix.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021108114118.GA3823@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
References:  <20021108094643.GA3590@grummit.biaix.org> <20021108114118.GA3823@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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* Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> [20021108 12:40]:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:46:43AM +0100, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:
> > I'm noticing some weird behaviour having perl writing to pipes (they eat
> > my output):
[...]
> You may find that appropriate use of the $| special variable (or
> equivalently the autoflush method of the IO::Handle object) suddenly
> makes things work a lot better.
Many thanks, hat did the trick

> Hmmm... This only seems to affect perl-5.00503 --- perl-5.6.1 works
> for me in the way you expect without any extra flushing.
I believe it only affects perl on FreeBSD, but anyway...

tks
-- 
pica

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