| Subject: | prompt on tty not flushed in test.pl |
With the debian packaged perl 5.8.8 and Term::Size 0.2; running
"make test" doesn't print the question "Do you want to run the tests"
to the terminal. It just prints "ok 1" and sits doing apparently
nothing.
I think it's merely that the prompt print hasn't been flushed,
as it comes out after you answer it (a pretty funny thing -- you
get the question after the answer :-).
Tinkering a bit suggests the blame may ultimately lie with
Term::Size::chars(). After calling that it seems STDERR isn't
autoflushed, or loses its linkage to flush when reading STDIN,
or whatever it's got by default, since without that chars() call
the prompt comes out fine. (The only moderately evil thing I could
spot in Size.xs was getting a FILE* instead of letting the perl
fileno func do the work.)
At any rate perhaps test.pl could setup to flush its prompts in the
interests of being sure of printing what should be printed.