How can I check if a filehandle is open in Perl?

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Published on 2009-02-06T13:04:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 1:13 UTC
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Is there a way to check if a file is already open in Perl? I want to have a read file access, so don't require flock.

 open(FH, "<$fileName") or die "$!\n" if (<FILE_IS_NOT_ALREADY_OPEN>);
 #  or something like
 close(FH) if (<FILE_IS_OPEN>);

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