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Buffering. You haven't flushed your output buffer yet. If you add 
my $old = select FOO;
$| = 1;
select $old;

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right after the open FOO, you'd see all the data.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: Unexpected behavior with open
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 14, 2001 at 06:23 UTC
    or you can use the idiom 
    select((select(FOO),$|=1)[0]);

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    does "idiom" mean "obfuscation"?
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[d/l]
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