Re: Storing metadata with file handles

Perhaps you should use the file descriptor number as a lookup key:

my %domain;
my $filenum = fileno($fh);
$domain{$filenum} = 'www.yoursite.com';
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-Blake

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Re: Re: Storing metadata with file handles by gomez18 (Sexton) on Oct 04, 2002 at 18:54 UTC
That's perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. An 8 bit man in a 32 bit world.	[reply]
Re3: Storing metadata with file handles by blakem (Monsignor) on Oct 04, 2002 at 19:02 UTC
And if you want to get really evil (read nonportable, and somewhat unreliable) you can sometimes associate the filenum back to a filename. Warning: this code is fragile, won't always work, and will only work on unix. `my $fileno = fileno($fh); my $filename = readlink("/dev/fd/" . $fileno);` [download] See: Re: Re: Can you delete a file by descriptor? -Blake	[reply] [d/l]