[perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed before exec().

On Sat May 26 16:19:46 2012, Hugmeir wrote:
> On Mon Sep 17 10:42:28 2001, RT_System wrote:
> > If $|++ is present, it works everywhere I've tested.
> > But without $|++, it works on Linux, but not on Solaris.
> > (The code quoted above is missing the dollarsign in $SIG{}.)
> > 
> > I used "perl -pi -e 's/tsuJ\n/tsuJ/' test-fail.pl" to remove
> > the trailing linefeed after editing the file.
> > 
> > > > STDOUT should get explictly flushed when fflush(NULL) is broken.
> > >
> > > util.c:Perl_my_fflush_all() should take care of this, and it is
> > called,
> > > via PERL_FLUSHALL_FOR_CHILD, in all the obvious places. Does that
> > fail
> > > to work correctly on your system, or is not called at all?
> > >
> > > - ams
> > 
> > I don't know the answer to that question.
> > 		-Joe
> > 
> 
> I couldn't get the code to run either, but this sounds like several
> other exec-not-flushing-STDOUT bugs that were fixed a while ago but only
> closed recently. OP, if you are still around, are you still seeing this
> issue with newer versions of Perl?
> 
> Since this ticket has been silent for over a decade, I recommend leaving
> it open for thirty more days, then closing it unless we get new
> information or other complains.
> 
> --hugmeir


No response in 15 months.  Closing ticket.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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• [ID 20010825.002] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by jms
• Re: [ID 20010825.002] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by Abhijit Menon-Sen
• Re: [ID 20010825.002] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by Joe Smith
• [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by Brian Fraser via RT
• [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by Nicholas Clark
• metaconfig tweak? (was Re: [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed beforeexec().) by Nicholas Clark
• Re: metaconfig tweak? (was Re: [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushedbefore exec().) by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: metaconfig tweak? (was Re: [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushedbefore exec().) by Nicholas Clark
• Re: metaconfig tweak? (was Re: [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushedbefore exec().) by H.Merijn Brand
• [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by H.Merijn Brand
• [perl #7586] STDOUT is not flushed before exec(). by James E Keenan via RT