Linux::FD(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Linux::FD(3pm)

Linux::FD - Linux specific special filehandles

version 0.016

Linux::FD provides you Linux specific special file handles. These are

  • Event filehandles
  • Signal filehandles
  • Timer filehandles

These allow you to use conventional polling mechanisms to wait for a large variety of events.

This creates an eventfd handle. See Linux::FD::Event for more information on it.

This creates an signalfd handle. See Linux::FD::Signal for more information on it.

This creates an timerfd handle. See Linux::FD::Timer for more information on it.

Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2024-10-15 perl v5.40.0
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