- close FILEHANDLE
- close
Closes the file or pipe associated with the filehandle, flushes the IO buffers, and closes the system file descriptor. Returns true if those operations succeed and if no error was reported by any PerlIO layer. Closes the currently selected filehandle if the argument is omitted.
You don't have to close FILEHANDLE if you are immediately going to do another
open
on it, becauseopen
closes it for you. (Seeopen
.) However, an explicitclose
on an input file resets the line counter ($.
), while the implicit close done byopen
does not.If the filehandle came from a piped open,
close
returns false if one of the other syscalls involved fails or if its program exits with non-zero status. If the only problem was that the program exited non-zero,$!
will be set to0
. Closing a pipe also waits for the process executing on the pipe to exit--in case you wish to look at the output of the pipe afterwards--and implicitly puts the exit status value of that command into$?
and${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}
.If there are multiple threads running,
close
on a filehandle from a piped open returns true without waiting for the child process to terminate, if the filehandle is still open in another thread.Closing the read end of a pipe before the process writing to it at the other end is done writing results in the writer receiving a SIGPIPE. If the other end can't handle that, be sure to read all the data before closing the pipe.
Example:
FILEHANDLE may be an expression whose value can be used as an indirect filehandle, usually the real filehandle name or an autovivified handle.
管道关闭前会发送给调用的命令一个管道关闭信号,上一级收到这个信号一般会死掉,管道会等上级死掉后关闭。
如果在自己脚本加上 pipe ignore 则 管道发送的关闭信号无效,管道会等待上级运行完毕才关闭。