Re: Re: open* and buffered program output

[narse]

Simply doing $|++ doesn't help me in this case. Nor does setting autoflush(). I suppose I should be using getc() but that does not seem like a very perl way of doing things. I was hoping for something more interesting like setting the end of line delimiter to a regex but I don't see a way of doing this. I wouldn't want to create my own buffer for assembling characters back into strings. Any thoughts?

[tilly]

Two possibilities for you.

One is that the message that you are trying to capture may be sent on STDERR, not STDOUT. If so then you are just listening on the wrong handle.

The other is that the buffering is not happening in Perl, but in tar. If that is the case, then you could use something like IO::Pty to fool tar into thinking that it is talking to a terminal, and not on a pipeline.