Perl Humor

It's a shame that the compiler stuff just flies by. I saw the word 'futile' and wanted to see what the Perl configurator was saying. I scrolled back and found this gem:

Your fflush(NULL) works okay for output streams.

Let's see if it clobbers input pipes...

Ouch, fflush(NULL) clobbers input pipes! We will not use it.

All is futile. Even fflush(stdin) clobbers input pipes!

OK, I give up. I cannot figure out how to flush pending stdio output.

We won't be flushing handles at all before fork/exec/popen.

Heh. Humor.

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