Scroll to navigation

Sys::Filesystem::Unix(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Sys::Filesystem::Unix(3pm)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

See Sys::Filesystem.

INHERITANCE

  Sys::Filesystem::Unix
  ISA UNIVERSAL

METHODS

Return the version of the (sub)module.
This method provides the capability to parse a standard unix fstab file.

It expects following arguments:

Full qualified path to the fstab file to read.
The column names for the fstab file through an array reference.
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.

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:

Full qualified path to the mnttab file to read.
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.

This method is called to parse the information got from "mount" system command. It expects following arguments:
Regular expression to extract the information from each mount line.
Array reference containing the index for primary keys of interest in match in following order: device, mount_point, type.
Array reference of the columns of the match - in order of paranteses in regular expression.
Array reference containing the names of the special file system types.
Array containing the lines to parse.
This method is called to parse the information from the swap status. It expects following arguments:
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.
Array containing the lines to parse.

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 2008-2020 Jens Rehsack.

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

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

2020-10-24 perl v5.30.3