NAME

Linux::FD - Linux specific special filehandles

VERSION

Version 0.001

DESCRIPTION

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 a large variety of events.

SUBROUTINES

Linux::FD defines 3 utility functions

eventfd($initial_value)

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

signalfd($sigset)

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

timerfd($clock_id)

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

AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans, <leont at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-linux-fd at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Linux-FD. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Linux::FD

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Linux-FD

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Linux-FD

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Linux-FD

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Linux-FD/

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Leon Timmermans.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.