APM: changing buffer size to a writable fh

[Dennis Moore]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:29:48PM -0500, jeremy wrote:
> Hey all,
>   I have a need to change the buffer used when writing to a file handle.
>   The handle to to a flat file.  The script dumps data to it.  ..no big
>   woop. 
> 
>  More specifically, I need to make sure that none of the  data gets
>  written to the file until the handle is closed OR until the there is no
>  more data regardless of how much data gets kept in memory.  I seem to
>  remember doing this a while back but I don't remember how.  Can someone
>  point me in the right direction?

i have a feeling you're asking the wrong question.  what is the purpose of
this behavior?   how would your program know there is no more data?  you
could just store your data in a variable and print when you're ready.  you
could also tie the filehandle.  you might also take a look at
Output::Buffer.  it looks like that one uses Tie::Filehandle::Buffer so
you'd be using tie in the end that way.

HTH

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