Thanks. At first I was responding with "it's not that easy", but this actually seems like it might have helped.

I am creating the threads from within a "constructor" in a package and need to close a file handle that is being assigned to a scalar rather than a type glob. Since the scalar is scoped to the scope of the subroutine and the thread logic was outside of that function I was attempting to pass the handle as an argument to the thread, which fails in various ways.

If I declare the thread logic in an anonymous sub nested inside the "constructor" it seems like I will be able to just reference the scalar within that same scope and be able to close the copy that gets dup'd into the new thread.

Test mockup works, I just need to test it with pipes and all the other details

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie qw/ open close /;
use threads stack_size => 4096;

package test;

sub doit {
    my $self = {};
    my $FOO;
    open $FOO, '<', 'WISDOM.ico' or die $!;
    my $threadcode = sub {
        close $FOO;
        eval { close $FOO; 1 } or warn $@;
        sleep 60;
        return;
    };
    $self->{'th'} = threads->create($threadcode);
    close $FOO;
    eval { close $FOO; 1 } or warn $@;
    bless $self;
}
sub joinit {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my $th = $self->{'th'};
    $th->join();
}

my $t = test::doit();
print "thread created\n";
# OS Tests here indicate the file descriptor is closed
$t->joinit();
print "thread ended\n";
sleep 100;
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Since the scalar is scoped to the scope of the subroutine and the thread logic was outside of that function I was attempting to pass the handle as an argument to the thread, which fails in various ways.

Hi, to me it seems like it works the same way, just no globals or no closures

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie qw/ open close /;
use threads stack_size => 4096;
{
    open my $fh, '<', __FILE__;
    threads->create(\&close_once, $fh )->join;
    threads->create(\&close_twice, $fh )->join;
    close $fh;
    close $fh; ## 11
}
sub close_once {
    my( $fh ) = @_;
    close $fh;
}
sub close_twice {
    my( $fh ) = @_;
    close $fh;
    eval { close $fh; 1 } or warn $@; ## 20
    return;
}


__END__
Can't close(GLOB(0xc38d6c)) filehandle: 'Bad file descriptor' at threa
+ds-close-filehandle-LEXICAL.pl line 20
Can't close(GLOB(0x99b26c)) filehandle: 'Bad file descriptor' at threa
+ds-close-filehandle-LEXICAL.pl line 11
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