I'm having a bit of trouble with tracking my filehandles and wonder if anyone might have some suggestions.

I'm working on a system that tails a number of web logs and I need to be able to associate each of the filehandles with a domain name so I can know the domain when I get a line of input. Therefore, I need some way to map the filehandle back to the domain name.

All the handles are implemented as IO::File objects. I tried stashing the domain name in there but it appears that it is implemented as a typeglob so I can't hide anything in there.

At the moment, I've got the thing rigged with a hash with the IO::File objects as keys and the domain names as values. It is my understanding that, in this usage, the filehandle would be reduced to a scalar before being turned into a key. This strikes me as a very bad way to do things but I'm at a total loss as to what to do. Any ideas?

An 8 bit man in a 32 bit world.

In reply to Storing metadata with file handles by gomez18

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