in reply to Re^2: Closing a filehandle in ":unix" layer doesn't work on Win32
in thread Closing a filehandle in ":unix" layer doesn't work on Win32

see perlio/binmode,
:unix Lowest level layer which provides basic PerlIO operations in terms of UNIX/POSIX numeric file descriptor calls (open(), read(), write(), lseek(), close()).
Also see this program, the results are for a win32 machine, and yes, those are unix perlio layers you see