Re: Sysread/seek on Linux

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From: Richard Kettlewell
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:00

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Robert Inder <robert@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> Is Linux Perl really fundamentally broken?

No, your program is.  Look for the `sysread' entry in `man perlfunc',
where it says:

    It bypasses stdio, so mixing this with other kinds of reads,
    print(), write(), seek(), or tell() can cause confusion because
    stdio usually buffers data.

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From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
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