Monks,
Attempting to retrieve the fcntl flags for a newly created output file handle using the code below.
The call to fcntl returns: 'Inappropriate ioctl for device'

use strict; 
use warnings;
use Fcntl;
my $file_name='/home/dir/temp/test_me.txt';
open my $fh,'>',$file_name || die "can't open $file_name for writing: 
+$!\n";
my $flags=fcntl $fh,F_GETFL,0 || die "fcntl call failed: $!\n";
print "Flags: $flags\n";
close $fh || die "can't close write handle to $file_name: $!\n";

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Thoughts on what I'm missing here? Any, and all ideas are appreciated.
This is my first posted question so please advise (and go easy on me :) ) if there are formatting errors.
Thank you!

In reply to Using fcntl function for the first time by matrixx515

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