CLASS METHODS

platform_can_fork

Returns true if platform can use fork(2) syscall.

Returns false on MSWin32 which does not have a real fork(2).

platform_can_sigaction

Returns true if platform can use Sys::SigAction.

Returns false on MSWin32 which does not have sigaction(2).

platform_zmq_fd_sockopt_is_fd

Returns true if the ZeroMQ socket option ZMQ_FD is a C runtime file descriptor (which is an int).

Returns false on MSWin32 where ZMQ_FD is of type SOCKET (which is a uint64).

platform_can_transport_zmq_ipc

Returns true if platform can use zmq_ipc(7) transport.

This is currently false on systems such as MSWin32 because they do not support Unix domain sockets.

endpoint

ZMQTest->endpoint($name)

Returns an appropriate endpoint string that is supported on the current platform.