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...to exit, the program cannot rely on a destructor to do the > cleanup as the handle may have been closed before the destructor is > executed. > > A solution to this would be to allow callbacks to be registered and > executed immediately prior to close(). For example: > > $g->pre_close(sub { > $g->rmdir($self->{foo}); > }); Unfortunately although this looks temptingly simple, it doesn't work for a variety of reasons. (1) $g is captured by the closure and so prevents implicit closure. Of course you can explicitly close the handle now, but it's still very co...