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On Wednesday July 4 2012 12:28:41 PM you wrote: > If you wanted two handles that share their internal state, you > wouldn't dup, you'd just copy a reference. Eg. Here's the crux of the problem - there are many times where you can't simply copy a reference. STD* are probably the primary cases of this: if you need to redirect them, you will (eventually) need to redirect them back. This is so the filehandles stay opened to the correct terminal when you're done. Some modules do this somewhat hidden, others do it right (i.e., fork first - redirecting back then becomes implicit by the OS when you exit). But I do think this is surprising. Especially since this is the example in perlfunc under "open" :-/Thread Next