in reply to Opens but Won't Write to file

With those items, it is possible that your output buffer is just not full, so the data is never flushed to disk. Add that to Joost's exhortations, and see what you come up with.

--MidLifeXis

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Re^2: Opens but Won't Write to file
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 30, 2009 at 21:49 UTC
    Ignore select. The simplest way to turn off buffering on a handle is 
    use IO::Handle qw( );
HANDLE->autoflush(1);

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      Simplest, but costly. From the docs: 

       use IO::Handle;    # thousands of lines just for autoflush :-(

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      I think that comment originates from someone rather well respected within the perl community.

      That could be avoided by a simple (untested): 

      sub autoflush{ my $old = select $_[ 0 ]; $|=1; select $old; }

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autoflush $fh;

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        Actually, the OP already has IO::Handle loaded (via IO::Socket via IO::Socket::INET), so it's free for him.

        For others, it has a one-time cost of 100ms. 

        >perl -le"use Time::HiRes qw( time ); $stime=time; require IO::Handle;
+ $etime=time; print $etime-$stime;"
0.082003116607666

>perl -le"use Time::HiRes qw( time ); $stime=time; require IO::Handle;
+ $etime=time; print $etime-$stime;"
0.0974130630493164

>perl -le"use Time::HiRes qw( time ); $stime=time; require IO::Handle;
+ $etime=time; print $etime-$stime;"
0.120858192443848

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        It's up to them if that's acceptable or not. If it's not, I suggest copying autoflush out of IO::Handle and call it as follows rather than twiddling with select and $| directly. 

        autoflush(HANDLE, 1);

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        Simplest, but costly.

        What kind of use do you have for a UDP server where the overhead of loading IO::Handle is even measurable?

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        Okay, thank you all for your kind notations. I have made a couple ssmall changes, doing the 'Standard' thing with Open OR Die and then using Select and autoflush($|=1); Thanks again to all Jim-

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      Aaah, yes. Old habits (this is a monastery, after all) die hard. I guess I need to update that habit.

      --MidLifeXis

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