On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:48:54 -0800, barto...@gmx.de 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