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I was thinking sysread(... 4096 ... will block until read all 4096 bytes...
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Re^5: IO::Handle read error description?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 28, 2010 at 19:44 UTC
    It will return whatever bytes are available. 
    $ perl -e'$|=1; print "a"; print "b"; sleep 1; print "c"' | \
    perl -le'print "[$buf]" while sysread(STDIN, $buf="", 4096);'
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