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Hi all!

I've accidentally found that "getc" and "sysread" behave differently after "exec":
getc does not get remaining data from the STDIN but sysread does it

echo -n ab | perl -e "print getc; exec 'perl', '-e', 'print getc'"
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prints only "a", but

echo -n ab | perl -e "sysread(STDIN, \$b, 1); print \$b; exec 'perl', 
+'-e', 'sysread(STDIN, \$b, 1); print \$b'"
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prints "ab"

why so? where is the "b" in the first case?

In reply to STDIN inheritance during exec and difference between getc and sysread by bdimych

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