Dear Monks, why pipe hangs after "last" statement: 
use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Pipe;
my $cmd = "tasklist";

my $pipe = IO::Pipe->new();
$pipe->reader($cmd);

while (my $line = $pipe->getline()) {
    print $line;
    last if $line =~ /^smss/;
}
$pipe->close();


C:\>R:\io_pipe_test.pl

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem
+ Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ======
+======
System Idle Process              0 Services                   0       
+  24 K
System                           4 Services                   0       
+ 300 K
smss.exe                       284 Services                   0      1
+.140 K
Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)

C:\>

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