the server would spew out the buffer contents in the log

Or maybe the log output is buffered.

I wanted to keep the post concise. It might end up being a long winded post and hence I only posted portions of the code that I though relevant.

Again, you describe a problem with the buffering of the communication with the client, but your code doesn't relate to the client at all. That's almost as if you had posted 

print "Hello World!\n";

[download]

All that leaves us with are claims that you autoflushed the socket and that it's still buffering. I can't do anything with that.

I don't even believe those claims. If they're true, there's something external to your machine that's buffering, or there's a bug in Perl in code that's been heavily used for a decade. I can't do anything if it's the former, and you've provided nothing to support the latter.

In reply to Re^3: Buffering & Network Programming Reads and Writes!! by ikegami
in thread Buffering & Network Programming Reads and Writes!! by MarkovChain

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