>Thanks Jay and Tom! I added this little bit to my script: > >select (CHILD); >$| = 1; >select (STDOUT); > >and it worked just as I expected it to. It's interesting, though, >that I've been working with sockets a bunch through IO::Socket and my >print statements seem to print to the socket stream immediately. Is a >good practice to set the autoflush to one for socket filehandles as >well?
Currently the IO::Socket is auto-flushed,so you maybe don't need to flush it again. When you write to/read from a pipe,you can always use syswrite/sysread instead,since syswrite/sysread avoid the IO buffer in Perl (it's in C's stdio indeed). -- Books below translated by me to Chinese. Practical mod_perl: http://home.earthlink.net/~pangj/mod_perl/ Squid the Definitive Guide: http://home.earthlink.net/~pangj/squid/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
