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NAME

PerlIO::excl - Creates a file only if it doesn't exist

SYNOPSIS

        open my $io,  '+<:excl', 'foo.txt';

DESCRIPTION

PerlIO::excl appends O_EXCL to the open flags.

When you'd like to create a file only if it doesn't exist before, you can use the :excl layer.

This is a pseudo layer that doesn't be pushed on the layer stack.

SEE ALSO

PerlIO::Util.

"sysopen" in perlfunc.

AUTHOR

Goro Fuji (藤 吾郎) <gfuji (at) cpan.org>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008, Goro Fuji <gfuji (at) cpan.org>. Some rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.