[perl #127682] [OSX] writing more than 8192 bytes to IO::Handle causes it to hang forever

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:48:54 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> FWIW that hangs on FreeBSD as well (maybe not too much a surprise,
> given the relationship of the OSes).

Hmm, looks like it hangs on Linux too -- with more than 224000 bytes on my machine:

$ perl6 -e 'my $proc = run($*EXECUTABLE, "-e", q| $*ERR.print("8" x 224001);|,:out,:err); say $proc.out.slurp'   ## hangs
^C
$ perl6 --version
This is Rakudo Star version 2017.10 built on MoarVM version 2017.10
implementing Perl 6.c.
$ uname -a
Linux p6 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.96-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux