I don't understand the tone of ur reply. I never said anything remotely smug.

But anyway, I don't understand what ur trying to say about closing them. It's not that I want fewer handles open at one time, it's that I want them to close and completely go away between invocations of that subroutine. I don't see how operating on the handles in two loop structures makes any difference to their persistence. Let's say I got rid of the for() loop and manually opened a number of handles as variables in the @pings array. Ur saying that would make a difference? The handles are all opened in the context of a subroutine and operated on solely within that same subroutine. Asked another way, what situation would make a file handle that just had close() called on it not release back to the OS?

Thanks.

In reply to Re^3: old file descriptors not being cleaned up by wagnerc
in thread old file descriptors not being cleaned up by wagnerc

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