NAME

FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles

cacheout - keep more files open than the system permits


SYNOPSIS

use FileHandle; autoflush STDOUT 1;

cacheout($path); print $path @data;


DESCRIPTION

See the perlvar manpage for complete descriptions of each of the following supported FileHandle methods:

print autoflush output_field_separator output_record_separator input_record_separator input_line_number format_page_number format_lines_per_page format_lines_left format_name format_top_name format_line_break_characters format_formfeed

The cacheout() function will make sure that there's a filehandle open for writing available as the pathname you give it. It automatically closes and re-opens files if you exceed your system file descriptor maximum.


BUGS

sys/param.h lies with its NOFILE define on some systems, so you may have to set $cacheout::maxopen yourself.

Due to backwards compatibility, all filehandles resemble objects of class FileHandle , or actually classes derived from that class. They actually aren't. Which means you can't derive your own class from FileHandle and inherit those methods.