Re: Disabling Buffering

The surest, simplest way would be to just pass an argument (--nobuffer) or set something in the environement from your launching program, then check for that inside your perl (either by parsing @ARGV or looking at $ENV{HEYDONOTBUFFER} or what not).

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Re^2: Disabling Buffering by richz (Beadle) on Nov 29, 2004 at 20:48 UTC
Fletch, that's not the question I am asking an answer to. What I want is a clean way of making both STDERR and STDOUT hot for the entire perl script. I just want to add code at the top of the script so that when I do my check to see if I want buffering I can add code to make the filehandles hot. This is what I want ideally if possible: `if(want to buffer) { ..... something to make STDERR and STDOUT hot for entire script .... }` [download] TIA.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Disabling Buffering by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 29, 2004 at 21:18 UTC
So do it. If you set autoflush on a handle it'll stay unbuffered until something else sets it back. Unless you have code that's twiddling `$\|` or doing `STDOUT->autoflush( 0 )` they should stay that way.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Disabling Buffering by bmc_mark (Novice) on Nov 29, 2004 at 21:33 UTC
Fletch, I have been looking for a way to catch stdout and stderr from my own Win32::Process::Create() call -- looks like you got that problem handled, can you please reply with your method? Thanks so much, and yes I'm desperate... Mark	[reply]