in reply to Global filehandles?

could you provide some pared-down example code?

incidentally, i have found the Log::LogLite module helpful for logging

perl -e"\$_=qq/nwdd\x7F^n\x7Flm{{llql0}qs\x14/;s/./chr(ord$&^30)/ge;print"

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