Re^2: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it

I tried using the third example (IO::Select). However, this just ends up being an infinite loop printing the time. It never gets to reading STDIN.

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Re^3: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it by zentara (Archbishop) on Sep 30, 2011 at 10:59 UTC
Works here. Are you hitting Enter to finish the line input? Otherwise use sysread. $ ./928062.pl Fri Sep 30 06:56:53 2011 Fri Sep 30 06:56:58 2011 asdfasfsad GLOB(0x7afe00) got: asdfasfsad Fri Sep 30 06:57:02 2011 ^C I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re^4: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it by Anonymous Monk on Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24 UTC
same problem sysread doesn't solve. It seems a matter of not blocking can_read. Did you manage to have it working?	[reply]
Re^5: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it by Anonymous Monk on Feb 02, 2012 at 09:19 UTC
It works on Linux, it doesn't on Windows XP. Do you know why? thank you	[reply]
Re^6: Ask for STDIN but don't pause for it by Anonymous Monk on Feb 02, 2012 at 09:24 UTC