On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:44 AM, James E Keenan via RT < perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > It appears from your response that you believe this is not a bug, just a > misunderstanding on the part of the OP. > No, not at all. I simply added additional information about the problem. I can replicate the OP's behaviour using 5.18.0, and it does seem wrong. Note that adding C<< close(STDIN); >> before the open fixes the problem. The problem doesn't appear to be limited to STDIN, but to opened handles in general.Thread Previous