in reply to tell() on sysread()

tell() is working with the buffer, but sysread() is bypassing the buffer. You need systell(), and if there isn't one, you're out of luck. {grin}

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Re^2: tell() on sysread()
by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Oct 25, 2004 at 15:50 UTC
    are you certain? beacuse the following works for me
    perl -e'open FH,"<test.pl"||die$!;$fh=\*FH;sysread($fh,$foo,256);
$bar=tell($fh);print"$foo\n$bar\n";'

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      Yet it fails miserably on Win32. The side-effects of using sysread are system-specific.
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