On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:21:51PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:58:54AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > perl5-porters, any thoughts on this? > > > > Any fix needs to be within the debugger. Making the debugger close > > all handles that weren't open when the process started seems 'most > > correct' as it would make the 'restarted' execution closer to the > > original execution. > > This policy would be a definite improvement over my "close all open > filehandles, other than the standard ones and internal ones". The cost > is that you would have to walk the fd table at debugger startup, but the > debugger is probably pretty heavy already. Also, is there a clean, > portable way to ask "is this fd open?"? > > Anyhow, a night's sleep and Tim's opinion convince me that this is > clearly the right approach.
So you'll provide a patch? Tim.
