OK, thnx for the pointers wrt '&' placement.

However, testing binmode() seems to do some odd things; if I apply the layers of the original to the dup'ed handle, the layers stack, rather than replace: 

use PerlIO;

my $fd;
open($fd, '+>>:raw', 'somefile.data') || die $!;

my $layers = ':' . join(':', PerlIO::get_layers($fd));

print "$layers\n";

#
# this doesn't complain, but the layers aren't being properly applied
#
my $fd3;
open($fd3, "+>>&", fileno($fd)) || die $!;
binmode $fd3, $layers;

print join(',', PerlIO::get_layers($fd3)), "\n";

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results in "unix,crlf,unix" as the reported layers for $fd3. I guess its possible scan and apply layers - but how do I remove them ? I tried using just "binmode $fd3;", and that still reports unix,crlf...

And I'm still left in limbo wrt getting handle access modes on Win32...is there any Win32API solution to that ?

In reply to Re^2: Can't open($newfh, $mode_layers, '&' . fileno($fh)) by renodino
in thread Can't open($newfh, $mode_layers, '&' . fileno($fh)) by renodino

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