[MacPerl-AnyPerl] Re: [MacPerl] Filehandle Open?

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 17:49 -0400 7/1/99, strider corinth wrote:
> Is there a good test anyone knows of to tell if a filehandle (specifically
> a socket) is really open? I've tried fileno(FILEHANDLE), but it likes to
> return the descriptor even if the filehandle has been disconnected.

Unfortunately, a disconnected filehandle would not, precisely, be _closed_.
That is, fileno should tell you if it's open or not, but your situation is
open and disconnected.

If fileno comes back still open, what does eof tell you?
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