Re: duping a filehandle

[ikegami]

From the man page for dup (on FreeBSD):

The object referenced by the descriptor does not distinguish between oldd and newd in any way. Thus if newd and oldd are duplicate references to an open file, read(2), write(2) and lseek(2) calls all move a single pointer into the file, and append mode, non-blocking I/O and asynchronous I/O options are shared between the references. If a separate pointer into the file is desired, a different object reference to the file must be obtained by issuing an additional open(2) system call. The close-on- exec flag on the new file descriptor is unset.

(Emphasis mine)

Look into tell + seek instead of duping.

[smackdab]

THANKS!!! I wish I knew unix better...I found a "seek($fh_log, 0, 0);" before returning from my subroutine put the filepointer back at the top, so all is good!

[ysth]

Alternatively, pass just the filename to your sub and open it there using a different file handle (preferably lexical).