Re: [Boston.pm] script works ok on command line, hangs when run from shell script

"Greg London" <email-2Ro/Dj86MvDSUeElwK9/[email protected]> writes:

> This may very well be a unix thing, not a perl thing,
...
> The -nobuffer is trying to get it to flush its output
> to STDOUT, rather than buffer it a block at a time.


If using a different shell isn't a solution for you maybe there's a way
to get the file descripter from a Perl handle and use fcntl with F_SETFL
and O_NONBLOCK to make C do what you want. I've never tried this myself.

-- 
Mike Small
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