Ah ok, makes sense.
Dean
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
> If anyone does something in perl that uses both perl's output and
> something that exec(3)s something, the perl output will not necessarily be
> flushed before the other output happens.
>
> eg.
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/crey
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
> system("/bin/ls");
>
> will fail on many systems because the output from ls happens
> before perl flushes its buffers. A similar thing happens in C
> on many systems. On some systems, you will never run into
> this problem.
>
> On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>
> > Why are we recommending $| = 1 all the time? I've never had to do this in
> > my CGIs.
> >
> > Dean
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
> > > Have you checked the error log? This is almost certainly a bug in your
> > > CGI script. Try adding "$| = 1;" near the start of your program and be
> > > sure you correctly output the header.
> >
>
>
