sub readlineMaybe { my $fh = shift; my $osfh = GetOsFHandle( $fh ) or die $^E; my( $bufsize, $buffer, $cAvail, $read ) = ( 1024, chr(0)x1024, chr(0)x4, 0 ); PeekNamedPipe( $osfh, $buffer, $bufsize, $read, $cAvail, 0 ) or $^E == 109 or die $^E; print 'Available: ', unpack 'V', $cAvail; return if $^E == 109; my $eolPos = 1+index $buffer, $/; return '' unless $eolPos; sysread( $fh, $buffer, $eolPos ) or die $!; return $buffer; }