An important detail on your die checks for your open
statements.
As pointed out in perlstyle, a useful error message should
pass through any information about why you had an
error, and should include enough information that if you
have to debug the problem, you will have information on
where to start. In your case the easiest way to do that
is to include $! in your error message and remove the
newline.
I consider this change extremely important, for reasons
that would be apparent to you if you had ever been at
work trying to get someone else's process back up running
so it can finish a critical job...
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