in reply to Re^11: 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

I had close ... and it didn't work

Hm. Try: 

use POSIX qw[ close ];

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

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