in reply to Why doesn't chmod work on this lexical filehandle?

You're calling chmod on a closed file handle. This doesn't work (it doesn't work with non-lexical file handles either).  Put the close after the chmod.

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Re^2: Why doesn't chmod work on this lexical filehandle?
by williff (Initiate) on Feb 14, 2011 at 22:00 UTC
    thank you, and as promising as it seemed, it did not alter the chmod response.
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