open my $output, '>-' or die $!; #### open my $output, '>&', *STDOUT or die $!; #### open my $output, '>-' or die $!; close *STDOUT; print {$output} "This fails with Bad file descriptor"; #### open my $output, '>&', *STDOUT or die $!; close *STDOUT; print {$output} "This prints OK\n"; #### my $output = *STDOUT; #### close STDOUT; print {$output} 'Besides Bad file descriptor, this will also warn "print() on closed filehandle STDOUT"'; #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; sub original { open my $output, '>-' or die $!; $output } sub assign { my $output = *STDOUT; $output } sub dup { open my $output, '>&', *STDOUT or die $!; $output } sub fn { open my $output, '>>&=', *STDOUT->fileno or die $!; $output } use Test::More; sub test { my ($open) = @_; my @W; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { push @W, @_ }; my $output = $open->(); close *STDOUT; my $v = print {$output} "abc\n"; isnt $v, 1, 'fails'; like $!, qr/Bad file descriptor/, 'Exception'; is scalar @W, 0, 'no warnings'; chomp, diag "($_)" for @W; done_testing(); } my %dispatch = (1 => \&original, 2 => \&assign, 3 => \&dup, 4 => \&fn); my $what = shift; my $code = $dispatch{$what} or die 'Not associated'; test($code);