Felix Li wrote: > Greetings, > > It's fairly well known that one should use "open" with an "or die". > Is there really any condition where "close" fails, making the "or > die" necessary?
If the handle you're closing is a pipe, close() captures the exit status of the child process. You should check the return value of close() in cases like this. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
