Re^2: Sending filehandles?

But you can also pass around a typeglob.

Sure, and you can also get the underlying file descriptor from the filehandle and pass that around and dup a new filehandle to the file descriptor, but don't do that.

Seriously. Why?

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Re^3: Sending filehandles? by shmem (Chancellor) on Feb 08, 2008 at 22:16 UTC
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