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Not to deviate too much from the questions in this post, so you can close a filehandle and you are able to check a return value from the close?

"I'll go further than that, I'll get off at the depot." (*) You can use the syntax:


close FILEHANDLE or die "Could not close FILEHANDLE: $!\n";

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to tell you what the errno varaible was set to when FILEHANDLE could not be closed.

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Re^4: Handling sockets in a server
by skerr1 (Sexton) on Oct 21, 2005 at 14:55 UTC

    Geez, now you sucked me in. Can you demonstrate a block of code that this works with. I've written several tools that tried to check the return on a close filehandle and never have I seen an error. I would like to see a true failure.

    And if someone would like to answer the orginal questions of the post, I would like that too! :)

    Thanks!

    Shannon Kerr
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