in reply to mod_perl and lazy zombies

Would calling local on the filehandle do any good?

Like so: 

local (*RPC);
open(RPC,"/bin/rpcinfo -p foo|") or die ...
while(<RPC>) {
   # do something with the output
}

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Re: Re: mod_perl and lazy zombies
by Odud (Pilgrim) on Jun 08, 2001 at 12:17 UTC
    No - I tried it and the zombies appear. Even though it is now local because I'm running under mod_perl the local variable stays in existance because there has been no exit from the enclosing block.
    Pete
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      so : 
      { 
 local(*RPC);
 #...
}

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      should be ok ? Perhaps it's the same than using IO::File. Anyway, I prefer the second solution : IO::File :)
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