in reply to Re^2: Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles
in thread Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles

Yes, but the point of closing a file is to have it closed, and does it really matter whether it closes from the server side or the client side? Perhaps I should have said no important errors rather than no errors...
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Re^4: Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles
by gaal (Parson) on Sep 27, 2004 at 09:22 UTC
    This situation can be indicative of a real applicative failure. perlipc gives the matter some discussion in the secion called "Using open() for IPC".