Re: perl programs hang if run with daemontools

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:02:02 -0400

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Oscar Retana <[email protected]> wrote:
> But any real script hangs. For example, if I add a single "sleep", I 
> stop receiving any log.

Perl is buffering its output.  You can add "$|=1;" to make the output
unbuffered, but for a large script written by someone else, you should
probably check with them to see if any other changes would be needed.

paul