NAME

Sys::Filesystem::Unix - Return generic Unix filesystem information to Sys::Filesystem

SYNOPSIS

See Sys::Filesystem.

INHERITANCE

Sys::Filesystem::Unix
ISA UNIVERSAL

METHODS

version()

Return the version of the (sub)module.

readFsTab

This method provides the capability to parse a standard unix fstab file.

It expects following arguments:

fstabPath

Full qualified path to the fstab file to read.

fstabKeys

The column names for the fstab file through an array reference.

special_fs

Hash reference containing the names of all special file systems having a true value as key.

This method return true in case the specified file could be opened for reading, false otherwise.

readMntTab

This method provides the capability to read abd parse a standard unix mount-tab file. The file is locked using flock after opening it.

It expects following arguments:

mnttabPath

Full qualified path to the mnttab file to read.

mnttabKeys

The column names for the mnttab file through an array reference.

$special_fs

Hash reference containing the names of all special file systems having a true value as key.

This method return true in case the specified file could be opened for reading and locked, false otherwise.

readMounts

This method is called to parse the information got from mount system command. It expects following arguments:

mount_rx

Regular expression to extract the information from each mount line.

pridx

Array reference containing the index for primary keys of interest in match in following order: device, mount_point, type.

keys

Array reference of the columns of the match - in order of paranteses in regular expression.

special

Array reference containing the names of the special file system types.

lines

Array containing the lines to parse.

readSwap

This method is called to parse the information from the swap status. It expects following arguments:

swap_rx

Regular expression to extract the information from each swap status line. This regular expression should have exact one pair of parantheses to identify the swap device.

lines

Array containing the lines to parse.

VERSION

$Id: Unix.pm 128 2010-05-12 13:16:44Z trevor $

AUTHOR

Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org> - http://perlgirl.org.uk

Jens Rehsack <rehsack@cpan.org> - http://www.rehsack.de/

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004,2005,2006 Nicola Worthington. Copyright 2008-2010 Jens Rehsack.

This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0