use Fcntl;

sysopen(FH, $filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666)

or die "Can't open $filename for reading/writing/creating : $!";

O_RDONLYRead-only

O_WRONLY Write-only

O_RDWR Reading and writing

O_APPEND Writes go to the end of the file

O_TRUNC Truncate the file if it existed

O_CREAT Create the file if it didn't exist

O_EXCLError if the file already existed (used with O_CREAT)

sysopen(LOG, "/var/log/myprog.log", O_APPEND, 0666)

or die "Can't open /var/log/myprog.log for appending: $!";