in reply to Re^2: How to autoflush streams (i.e. open3 calls)
in thread [UPDATED] How to autoflush streams (i.e. open3 calls)

But STDERR seems to be autoflushed by default: 
perl -MIO::Handle -e ' print 1; print STDERR 33; sleep 1; print 2';

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