<snip> And that seemed to go away with $| = 0 </snip> Oh, yeah, I forgot about that part. Oh, bother.
Jon -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:30 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM usability 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
