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Perl's filehandles are implemented as a stack of layers, with the bottom-most
usually doing the actual IO and the higher ones doing buffering,
encoding/decoding or transformations. PerlIO::Layers allows you to query the
filehandle's properties concerning there layers.

WWW: https://metacpan.org/release/PerlIO-Layers