On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:23, sanket vaidya <sanket.vai...@patni.com> wrote: snip > This code gave some vague picture in my mind about flushing. To summarize > > When we write some data, the data is not written (to terminal or file) > instantly, but is collected in buffer & is only written when the buffer is > full. Once the buffer is full, the data is written & thereafter buffer is > erased. This is known as flushing. > > Setting $| = 1 flushes the buffer as soon as it receives a data. So the > buffer doesn't wait to collect specific amounts of data before flushing. > > Kindly elaborate this & correct me if I am wrong. snip
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