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yes, it does not seem to present in IO::Select. also as I told above eof() cant be used too!
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Re^5: poorly documented behaviour of readline() and IO::Select
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 29, 2010 at 18:22 UTC
    The following builtins perform buffered reading:

    readpipe (aka backticks) probably does as well, but it's not relevant here since it doesn't operate on a file handle.