Sudarshan Raghavan wrote:
>
> Both STDERR and STDOUT are line buffered, when a "\n" is seen
> the contents of the buffer is flushed. Turning on autoflush is superfluous
> in this case. Try this instead :-)
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> select (STDERR);
> $| = 1;
> print STDOUT "STDOUT";
> print STDERR "STDERR";
As I pointed out, precisely how the streams are handled is
platform-dependent. On my Win2KPro system this
print STDERR "STDERR\n";
print STDOUT "STDOUT\n";
outputs this
STDOUT
STDERR
so they are clearly not line-buffered. Whether it is generally
true that they are on *nix systems I cannot say.
Cheers,
Rob
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