command pipe concatenated messages

[Jim Mozley]

> 
> The only thing I can think of is manually flushing the filehandle. I
> wouldn't expect that to have an effect since the code that Jim wrote
> sets $| on the PIPE filehandle, or he used syswrite which should
> bypass buffering, but if it works with a 2 second sleep, but not
> without it, it sounds like something isn't getting flushed properly,
> or maybe some kernel wierdness. The size of the write is far below the
> block size on linux let alone solaris (4K right?)
> 
> I'll go into the corner and shut up now.

Please don't, all comments have been useful. I can now replicate the 
problem which is great. I will now try Al's Nagios::Cmd module and see 
if that sorts out the issue, although the test that comes with it for 
checking this issue passes on Solaris.

Jim


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