So, can anyone help with my original question? I'm sure I'm not the only perl person who is concerned with thorough error handling in code where error handling is important (such as code run by root).

The original question was: what is the Perl Best Practice idiom for handling readline errors?

Being a new poster to PerlMonks, but not a new perl user, is there anything I can do or any way I can help to get this question answered? Anything I can do to get more attention focused on this question?