in reply to Re:x2 if (open(FH, $path)) { ? (I got the resource acquisition blues)
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Yup, agreed, i would s/theoretical// as there is an actual risk, and it can happen...
To handle the negative case, one could include a die handler in the open statement to make sure everything is nice and graceful.
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