NAME

       Linux::FD - Linux specific special filehandles

VERSION

       version 0.016

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 for a large variety of events.

FUNCTIONS

   eventfd($initial_value, @flags)
       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@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       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.

perl v5.38.2                                       2024-03-31                                     Linux::FD(3pm)