NAME

FileCache::Handle - A FileCache using IO::Handle instances

SYNOPSIS

  use FileCache::Handle;

  $FileCache::Handle::MAX = 16;

  my @a;
  for (my $i = 0 ; $i < 100 ; $i++) {
    my $o = new FileCache::Handle("/tmp/$i");

    binmode($o, ':utf8');
    push @a, $o;
  }

  for (my $i = 0 ; $i < 3 ; $i++) {
    foreach my $o (@a) {
      print $o "Output ",$o," $i\n";
    }
  }

DESCRIPTION

FileCache::Handle, like FileCache, avoids OS-imposed limits on the number of simultaneously open files. Instances behave like file handles and, behind the scenes, real files are opened and closed as necessary. FileCache::Handle uses instances of IO::Handle, and so works well with 'use strict'.

NOTES

The only operations supported are 'print' and 'binmode'. To add more, create a glue method that delegates the call to the handle returned by '_allocate()'.

AUTHOR

Joseph Walton <joe@kafsemo.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005 Joseph Walton