On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 02:52:10PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >You've probably switched from perl using stdio to using perlio.
The perl I have certainly has USE_PERLIO set. >You >could compile 5.10.1 with usestdio to see if that makes a difference. >Or you could try a newer perl and see if this is a bug that perhaps >has been fixed? Oh dear. I could, but it's rather a slog. >Which strikes a vague bell...does it help to say: my $data = ''; No. Nor to initialise it to the size of the buffer. R