Urm... the filehandle for stat, actually for -s, works for me. 
open OUT, ">test.txt";
for (1 .. 1000) {
    print OUT "Hello, Perlmonks!\n" x 10;
    print -s OUT;
}

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It works, but -s is indeed set according to the buffer size, and not according to the already printed output: 
0
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0
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4096
4096
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4096
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4096
...

With $| set to a true value it'll work less coarse, but most likely quite a bit slower: 

open OUT, ">test.txt";
my $fh = select OUT;
$| = 1;
select $fh;
for (1 .. 1000) {
    print OUT "Hello, Perlmonks!\n" x 10;
    print -s OUT;
}

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192
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I think the coarse version is still fine enough.

In reply to Re^3: limit output filesize by bart
in thread limit output filesize by rogue90

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