NAME

Devel::Platform::Info::BSD - Retrieve BSD platform metadata

SYNOPSIS

use Devel::Platform::Info::BSD;
my $info = Devel::Platform::Info::BSD->new();
my $data = $info->get_info();

DESCRIPTION

This module is a driver to determine platform metadata regarding the BSD family of operating systems. It should be called indirectly via it's parent Devel::Platform::Info

INTERFACE

The Constructor

• new

  Simply constructs the object.

Methods

• get_info

  Returns a hash reference to the BSD platform metadata.

  Returns the following keys:

  source
  archname
  osname
  osvers
  oslabel
  is32bit
  is64bit
  osflag
  
  kernel
  kname
  kvers

REFERENCES

The following links were used to understand how to retrieve the metadata:

* http://nixcraft.com/all-about-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd/234-freebsd-how-find-out-kernel-version.html
* http://www.netbsd.org/ports/

Thanks to Chris 'BINGOS' Williams for the pointers to the appropriate links.

BUGS, PATCHES & FIXES

There are no known bugs at the time of this release. However, if you spot a bug or are experiencing difficulties, that is not explained within the POD documentation, please send bug reports and patches to the RT Queue (see below).

RT Queue: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Devel-Platform-Info

AUTHORS

Barbie (BARBIE) <barbie@cpan.org>
Brian McCauley (NOBULL) <nobull67@gmail.com>
Colin Newell http://colinnewell.wordpress.com/
Jon 'JJ' Allen (JONALLEN) <jj@jonallen.info>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Birmingham Perl Mongers

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.