From: Jeff King Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:31:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] git send-email: avoid leaking directory file descriptors. Message-ID: <20081102043120.GD5261@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <1225450632-7230-2-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:57:10AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > + closedir(DH); Ugh. This is a great reason to use a scoped variable (like "my $dh), which will close automatically. Once upon a time I think you _had_ to use globs for this, but I think it has not been the case for some time (and I think we only support back to perl 5.6 these days). Can any perl gurus comment? -Peff