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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: (f)flush?
Message-ID: <9027@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 6 Aug 90 18:37:27 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <!&=ze2.ip@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
: Why don't we just make $| be the stdio buffer size of the current file handle?
: 
: Zero is the default stdio buffer, a buffer size of one obviously says
: "unbuffered", and anything else setvbuf()s a buffer of that size.

$| = 1 obviously does NOT want to mean "unbuffered".

Larry