Re^4: Timeout on STDIN

Thanks... I thought I had that set but I didn't I tried again with

$|=1 $msg=<STDIN>

still works

but the ReadKey never seems to get characters

$key = ReadKey(1);

My script is being opened as a child of another process and that process prints strings to stdin (not using a keyboard)

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Re^5: Timeout on STDIN by soonix (Chancellor) on Oct 24, 2016 at 11:43 UTC
Then perhaps not STDIN of your (child) script, but STDOUT of the parent script (or whatever its corresponding file handle is) may be buffered?	[reply]
Re^6: Timeout on STDIN by boleary (Scribe) on Oct 24, 2016 at 14:25 UTC
I believe STDOUT from my parent always flushes (so <STDIN> always works if the parent is working) My problem occurs if the parent hangs, because the child process then hangs waiting for <STDIN> So I was hoping for a way to be able to timeout waiting for <STDIN>	[reply]