You proabably know that you can use open to change the defaults
Actually, I didn't. Thanks for bringing it up, I don't recall having seen it mentioned here before.
That said, it doesn't appear to affect this particular case as it seems it only applies to the 2-arg varient on open and/or the STD* handles.
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open pragma ignores 3-arg variant of open
This appears to have been fixed in the latest stable release perl-5.8.8.
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