On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Craig A. Berry <craigbe...@mac.com> wrote:
> What happens on Unix when you have a pipe buffer that is 8192 bytes and > you set $/ to 8193 and read a record containing UTF-8 data through the pipe? > Perl requests 8K (formerly 4K) chunks until it has received enough. It requests 8K even if it only needs 1 byte.
