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in thread Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles

Exactly, that's why I mentioned stale values of $! and set it to undef in the scriptified version of the second paragraph.

It would have been better to do that right before exiting the scope of $fh. EAGAIN is sometimes possible during normal I/O.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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