Hello choroba,

when I read

> The filehandle stays connected to it even if the file name changes

I said: oh what good news! But when I tried it appears to behaves differently on MSWin32: I suddendly get Permission denied at writetorenamed.pl line 13. after had printed 1 or 2 and the file get not renamed ;(

perl writetorenamed.pl

Printed: 1.
Printed: 2.
Permission denied at writetorenamed.pl line 13.
Printed: 3.
Printed: 4.
Printed: 5.
Printed: 6.
Printed: 7.
Printed: 8.
Printed: 9.
Printed: 10.

cat 1

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

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In reply to Re^2: Easy way to check if a file is open needed. -- MSWin32 by Discipulus
in thread Easy way to check if a file is open needed. by Apt_Addiction

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