in reply to Safe File Handling

See perldoc perlopentut, where in addition to many useful nuggets, you'll find this one: 
sysopen(FH, $path, O_WRONLY | O_EXCL | O_CREAT);

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Re^2: Safe File Handling
by CloneArmyCommander (Friar) on Nov 06, 2005 at 01:22 UTC
    Thank you :D!
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