On 5/14/07, Jon Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought the problem here was not Perl itself but the unpredictability of the prior program in the pipeline; that is, whatever program is supplying the input is buffering its output, which it out of control of the pipe facility itself. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding the problem.
Correct. My problem was that the data between vmstat and my Perl program was being buffered. And that seemed to go away with $| = 0 Rob
