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

Mike Small <[email protected]> writes:

> Mike Small <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> "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.
>
> Bah! Ignore this advice. I just told you to do in worse way what Bill
> told you that I disagreed with. I was wanting fcntl to have a "do line
> buffering" flag but I don't see it.

Hi again.  Maybe O_DIRECT is the flag you seek?

-- 
Mike Small
[email protected]