sysopen(FILEHANDLE, $filename, permissions, CHMOD); #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Fcntl; my $var = 1; while ($var) { sysopen (FILE, '/home/smaug/testing/file.txt', O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_CREAT, 0777); printf FILE "A value of n\n"; } close (FILE);