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(64k?)

Seems to be 12k? 

C:\>perl -E"$s='x'x1024; say $s, warn $_ for 1 .. 100" | perl -nle" sl
+eep 100"
1 at -e line 1.
2 at -e line 1.
3 at -e line 1.
4 at -e line 1.
5 at -e line 1.
6 at -e line 1.
7 at -e line 1.
8 at -e line 1.
9 at -e line 1.
10 at -e line 1.
11 at -e line 1.
12 at -e line 1.

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Update: I think 4K at each end and 4k in the middle.

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Re^5: Executing Commands with "open"
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 14, 2010 at 19:06 UTC

    There's a couple of problems with your code (buffering, sending 1025 or 1026 bytes at a time, -n absorbs some of the bytes).

    On this Debian system: 

    $ perl -e'$|=1; { print("x"x1024); warn(++$i); redo }' | perl -e sleep
...
60 at -e line 1.
61 at -e line 1.
62 at -e line 1.
63 at -e line 1.
64 at -e line 1.
[blocks]
^C

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