Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
my $first_free = do { open my $x, ">&STDERR"; fileno $x };
Yes, it's not the same as the number currently in use, but it's a
cheap number to get.
If you're on Linux (or Solaris IIRC) you could always use:
my $num_fh = $#{[</proc/$$/fd/*>]}+1;Hmm, lovely piece of line noise that.
Sam.
