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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:14:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tian You wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I'm running a perl program like this:
>
> ## script start ##
> print "Please input:";
> my $input = <STDIN>;
> chomp $input;
>
> system("ssh to a remote machine to run an command");
> print "done\n";
> ## script done ##
>
> But after I input something and press enter, I can not see the output
> of the ssh command.
> Only after I press any key, the output flushes out to the screen.
> Is the output buffered? But why it flushed after I press any one key?
>

Are you starting in mintty or rxvt?  What happens if you don't use
either of those?  I suspect that your ssh isn't a Cygwin build and you
are seeing the effect of PTY as pipes emulation.

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