On 8/13/04 10:34 PM, John Siracusa wrote:
> In the situation I described, for example, print will happily return 1 so long
> as what it's printing fits in the output buffer, regardless of whether or not
> the data is actually going to make it to the disk.

Er, that should read "regardless of whether or not the disk is full", since
"making it to disk" is outside the scope of Perl's core functions (and may
be outside the scope of the OS if the hardware lies :)

-John



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