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.IX Title "Linux::FD 3pm"
.TH Linux::FD 3pm 2024-03-07 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Linux::FD \- Linux specific special filehandles
.SH VERSION
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 0.016
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Linux::FD provides you Linux specific special file handles. These are
.IP \(bu 4
Event filehandles
.IP \(bu 4
Signal filehandles
.IP \(bu 4
Timer filehandles
.PP
These allow you to use conventional polling mechanisms to wait for a large variety of events.
.SH FUNCTIONS
.IX Header "FUNCTIONS"
.ie n .SS "eventfd($initial_value, @flags)"
.el .SS "eventfd($initial_value, \f(CW@flags\fP)"
.IX Subsection "eventfd($initial_value, @flags)"
This creates an eventfd handle. See Linux::FD::Event for more information on it.
.SS signalfd($sigset)
.IX Subsection "signalfd($sigset)"
This creates an signalfd handle. See Linux::FD::Signal for more information on it.
.SS timerfd($clock_id)
.IX Subsection "timerfd($clock_id)"
This creates an timerfd handle. See Linux::FD::Timer for more information on it.
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Leon Timmermans.
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This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.