[sleuthkit-developers] Perl Guru Needed - I/O

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

Any Perl Gurus on this list?  

I'm trying to fix the problem that was mentioned on the users list 
recently.  With Perl 5.8.0 the output of some commands is not
shown.  Hit refresh and its there.  

I was using backticks for the commands and today I changed to 
using 'open' with pipes (which I had been meaning to do for a
while).  That doesn't help.  I set the pipe to autoflush and that didn't
help.  If I sleep for a second before reading the pipe then the data
is always there, but it slows the whole process down.  If I do a 
'wait' on the output then for large amounts of output the system 
hangs because the process won't continue until its buffer is read.

Any other ideas?  I don't understand why this only happens with
5.8 and not 5.6.

brian