This appears to still be true under bleadperl 8101. This is a bug report for perl from sey@tera.kyoto.jkc.co.jp, generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter your report here] I cannot alias a tied filehandle with type glob assignment. tie *H, 'Test'; *K = *H; print "*H is tied '",tied(*H),"'\n"; print "*K is tied '",tied(*K),"'\n"; sub Test::TIEHANDLE { bless {}, shift; } This prints as follows. *H is tied 'Test=HASH(0xba0c40)' *K is tied '' I have an alternate way as follows. But it is not usable for practical use. tie *H, 'Test'; tie *K, 'AliasTieHandle', tied(*H); print "*H is tied '",tied(*H),"'\n"; print "*K is tied '",tied(*K),"'\n"; sub Test::TIEHANDLE { bless {}, shift; } sub AliasTieHandle::TIEHANDLE { shift; shift; }Thread Next