I'm writing a CGI program (Apache running on FreeBSD) that will write some output to a file. This part is causing me no end of headaches:

sub write_list {
        my $outfile = "/home/foo/bar";
        open (OUT, ">$outfile") or &print_error ("Can't open $outfile:
+ $!");       
        foreach $i (@changes) {
                print OUT $i;
        }
        close (OUT) or print_error ("Can't close $file properly: $!");
}

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Opening the file is fine. Writing to the file is fine (I can cat the file and see what I expected; @changes is global, which prob. isn't the best way to do it but doesn't seem to be relevant here). Closing the file gives an error: "Error: Can't close /home/foo/bar properly: Bad file descriptor."

I've tried chmod'ing the file 777. I've tried making the group ownership www (group of the user running Apache). Both have no effect. I can't seem to find any information on this problem with close(). Can anyone fill me in on what I'm doing wrong?

I am now blessing your keyboard...

In reply to close() gives bad file descriptor error by Saint Aardvark

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