On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:01:54 -0400 "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thought experminent:
> Now, although I'm not putting this into the FAQ and I have no idea why
> you'd want to do this, but what if you serialized the handle in the
> child (Data::Dumper or Storable), passed the string back to the parent
> (open pipe communication) and set InactivateDestroy in the child. Could
> you somehow thaw that string into the parent's handle and carry on?

Someone came to the list recently after trying that.  It wasn't a pretty
sight.

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