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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In reply to Re^4: Perl jumps to END logic after fileno (Win32) by dchidelf
in thread Perl jumps to END logic after fileno (Win32) by dchidelf

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