On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > Thanks for the quick response. Since according to definition of line > buffering (see below), a buffer is flushed is after newlines, so writing > statements such as : > print "<p> This is a paragraph</p>\n" > > in a CGI program will automatically flush the buffer right? Or it > doesn't? I wondering if perl will figure out that since STDOUT is not > connected to a terminal, it will still buffer it even though the print > contains a newline.
Not necessarily. Usually one has to make the filehandle to be written to as "hot", to borrow mjd's term. You can do this via setting $| ($OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH in English) to a nonzero value, or explicitly setting autoflush via IO::Handle (e.g. autoflush STDOUT 1). -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
