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There is no bug. Non-blocking ReadLine is just not supported on Win32, that's how it is.

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Re^2: ReadLine Non-Blocking not supported
by minixman (Beadle) on Feb 13, 2006 at 13:22 UTC
    Aaaa , is there a way around it, another module that is supported ?
      AFAIK this is a limitation of Windows, select() works only on sockets not disk files. All I can suggest is that you write your own nonblocking approximation of readline using Term::ReadKey