command pipe concatenated messages

[Al Tobey]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 04:07, Jim Mozley wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
Please send me anything you can so I can better replicate your problem
and add a test to Nagio::Cmd.





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