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what is difference between sysread and read function?

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Re: sysread vs read
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 05, 2009 at 09:49 UTC
    read is buffered, sysread isn't. 
    perldoc -f sysread
perldoc -f read

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      Also sysread bypasses IO layers (which can transform the read characters).
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