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In Perl 5.8 perldoc -f open tells me:

# [...]
File handles can be opened to "in memory" files held 
in Perl scalars via:

               open($fh, ">", \$variable)
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Is there a way to open files in memory in Perl 5.6.1. ?

A lot of our test code does kludgy stuff like write test files to /tmp

On related note is there a good module or technique for Perl 5.8 that allows a RAM based dir ?

I have a script that tars a bunch of files. It would be nice to put them in a directory before tarring them and the end user doesn't want to create temporary files. I've taken a quick look through CPAN but nothing jumped out at me. Please feel free to point out something I've overlooked

update: By "RAM based file system" I mean soemthing like: "not on physical disc", something that nothing but root with a debugger and my program can access.

email: mandog

In reply to in memory files in 5.6.1 by mandog

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