in reply to Re^10: Win32: Setting a layer with binmode causes problem with close() on Windows (PerlIO silently fails to close the file)
in thread Win32: Setting a layer with binmode causes problem with close() on Windows

If you close those before launching your async process via system 1, ..., then it will not cause the server to block.

:) yes, I'm aware that is common, and I had close ... and it didn't work

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Re^12: Win32: Setting a layer with binmode causes problem with close() on Windows (PerlIO silently fails to close the file)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 17, 2013 at 15:02 UTC
    I had close ... and it didn't work

    Hm. Try: 

    use POSIX qw[ close ];

...
POSIX::close( $_ ) for 0 .. 255;

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