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Add option to choose between read-write and write-only mode [rt.cpan.org #99444] #18

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xdg opened this issue Apr 3, 2016 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #28

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xdg commented Apr 3, 2016

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99444

File::Temp currently opens temporary files with O_RDWR. This makes it impossible to use it with PerlIO::gzip (i.e. set binmode gzip) because the latter only works with read-only or write-only file descriptors. Therefore it would be very useful to have an option to set write-only mode. I don't think that read-only would make much sense because then you could only read from an empty file.

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Leont commented Apr 8, 2016

Sounds reasonable to me, having some way to pass the mode would be useful.

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Add WRITE_ONLY option to open temp file with O_WRONLY #28

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