- "_exit"
- This is identical to the C function
"_exit()". It exits the program
immediately which means among other things buffered I/O is not
flushed.
Note that when using threads and in Linux this is not a
good way to exit a thread because in Linux processes and threads are
kind of the same thing (Note: while this is the situation in early 2003
there are projects under way to have threads with more POSIXly semantics
in Linux). If you want not to return from a thread, detach the
thread.
- "abort"
- This is identical to the C function
"abort()". It terminates the process
with a "SIGABRT" signal unless caught by
a signal handler or if the handler does not return normally (it e.g. does
a "longjmp").
- "abs"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"abs()" function, returning the absolute
value of its numerical argument (except that
"POSIX::abs()" must be provided an
explicit value (rather than relying on an implicit
$_):
$absolute_value = POSIX::abs(42); # good
$absolute_value = POSIX::abs(); # throws exception
- "access"
- Determines the accessibility of a file.
if( POSIX::access( "/", &POSIX::R_OK ) ){
print "have read permission\n";
}
Returns "undef" on failure.
Note: do not use "access()" for
security purposes. Between the
"access()" call and the operation you
are preparing for the permissions might change: a classic race
condition.
- "acos"
- This is identical to the C function
"acos()", returning the arcus cosine of
its numerical argument. See also Math::Trig.
- "acosh"
- This is identical to the C function
"acosh()", returning the hyperbolic
arcus cosine of its numerical argument [C99]. See also Math::Trig.
- "alarm"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"alarm()" function, either for arming or
disarming the "SIGARLM" timer, except
that "POSIX::alarm()" must be provided
an explicit value (rather than relying on an implicit
$_):
POSIX::alarm(3) # good
POSIX::alarm() # throws exception
- "asctime"
- This is identical to the C function
"asctime()". It returns a string of the
form
"Fri Jun 2 18:22:13 2000\n\0"
and it is called thusly
$asctime = asctime($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon,
$year, $wday, $yday, $isdst);
The $mon is zero-based: January equals
0. The $year is
1900-based: 2001 equals 101.
$wday and $yday default
to zero (and are usually ignored anyway), and
$isdst defaults to -1.
- "asin"
- This is identical to the C function
"asin()", returning the arcus sine of
its numerical argument. See also Math::Trig.
- "asinh"
- This is identical to the C function
"asinh()", returning the hyperbolic
arcus sine of its numerical argument [C99]. See also Math::Trig.
- "assert"
- Unimplemented, but you can use "die" in perlfunc and the Carp
module to achieve similar things.
- "atan"
- This is identical to the C function
"atan()", returning the arcus tangent of
its numerical argument. See also Math::Trig.
- "atanh"
- This is identical to the C function
"atanh()", returning the hyperbolic
arcus tangent of its numerical argument [C99]. See also Math::Trig.
- "atan2"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"atan2()" function, returning the arcus
tangent defined by its two numerical arguments, the y coordinate
and the x coordinate. See also Math::Trig.
- "atexit"
- Not implemented. "atexit()" is
C-specific: use "END {}" instead, see
perlmod.
- "atof"
- Not implemented. "atof()" is C-specific.
Perl converts strings to numbers transparently. If you need to force a
scalar to a number, add a zero to it.
- "atoi"
- Not implemented. "atoi()" is C-specific.
Perl converts strings to numbers transparently. If you need to force a
scalar to a number, add a zero to it. If you need to have just the integer
part, see "int" in perlfunc.
- "atol"
- Not implemented. "atol()" is C-specific.
Perl converts strings to numbers transparently. If you need to force a
scalar to a number, add a zero to it. If you need to have just the integer
part, see "int" in perlfunc.
- "bsearch"
- "bsearch()" not supplied. For doing
binary search on wordlists, see Search::Dict.
- "calloc"
- Not implemented. "calloc()" is
C-specific. Perl does memory management transparently.
- "cbrt"
- The cube root [C99].
- "ceil"
- This is identical to the C function
"ceil()", returning the smallest integer
value greater than or equal to the given numerical argument.
- "chdir"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"chdir()" function, allowing one to
change the working (default) directory -- see "chdir" in
perlfunc -- with the exception that
"POSIX::chdir()" must be provided an
explicit value (rather than relying on an implicit
$_):
$rv = POSIX::chdir('path/to/dir'); # good
$rv = POSIX::chdir(); # throws exception
- "chmod"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"chmod()" function, allowing one to
change file and directory permissions -- see "chmod" in perlfunc
-- with the exception that
"POSIX::chmod()" can only change one
file at a time (rather than a list of files):
$c = chmod 0664, $file1, $file2; # good
$c = POSIX::chmod 0664, $file1; # throws exception
$c = POSIX::chmod 0664, $file1, $file2; # throws exception
- "chown"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"chown()" function, allowing one to
change file and directory owners and groups, see "chown" in
perlfunc.
- "clearerr"
- Not implemented. Use the method
"IO::Handle::clearerr()" instead, to
reset the error state (if any) and EOF state (if any) of the given
stream.
- "clock"
- This is identical to the C function
"clock()", returning the amount of spent
processor time in microseconds.
- "close"
- Close the file. This uses file descriptors such as those obtained by
calling "POSIX::open".
$fd = POSIX::open( "foo", &POSIX::O_RDONLY );
POSIX::close( $fd );
Returns "undef" on
failure.
See also "close" in perlfunc.
- "closedir"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"closedir()" function for closing a
directory handle, see "closedir" in perlfunc.
- "cos"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"cos()" function, for returning the
cosine of its numerical argument, see "cos" in perlfunc. See
also Math::Trig.
- "cosh"
- This is identical to the C function
"cosh()", for returning the hyperbolic
cosine of its numeric argument. See also Math::Trig.
- "copysign"
- Returns "x" but with the sign of
"y" [C99].
$x_with_sign_of_y = POSIX::copysign($x, $y);
See also "signbit".
- "creat"
- Create a new file. This returns a file descriptor like the ones returned
by "POSIX::open". Use
"POSIX::close" to close the file.
$fd = POSIX::creat( "foo", 0611 );
POSIX::close( $fd );
See also "sysopen" in perlfunc and its
"O_CREAT" flag.
- "ctermid"
- Generates the path name for the controlling terminal.
$path = POSIX::ctermid();
- "ctime"
- This is identical to the C function
"ctime()" and equivalent to
"asctime(localtime(...))", see
"asctime" and "localtime".
- "cuserid"
- Get the login name of the owner of the current process.
$name = POSIX::cuserid();
- "difftime"
- This is identical to the C function
"difftime()", for returning the time
difference (in seconds) between two times (as returned by
"time()"), see "time".
- "div"
- Not implemented. "div()" is C-specific,
use "int" in perlfunc on the usual
"/" division and the modulus
"%".
- "dup"
- This is similar to the C function
"dup()", for duplicating a file
descriptor.
This uses file descriptors such as those obtained by calling
"POSIX::open".
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "dup2"
- This is similar to the C function
"dup2()", for duplicating a file
descriptor to an another known file descriptor.
This uses file descriptors such as those obtained by calling
"POSIX::open".
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "erf"
- The error function [C99].
- "erfc"
- The complementary error function [C99].
- "errno"
- Returns the value of errno.
$errno = POSIX::errno();
This identical to the numerical values of the
$!, see "$ERRNO" in perlvar.
- "execl"
- Not implemented. "execl()" is
C-specific, see "exec" in perlfunc.
- "execle"
- Not implemented. "execle()" is
C-specific, see "exec" in perlfunc.
- "execlp"
- Not implemented. "execlp()" is
C-specific, see "exec" in perlfunc.
- "execv"
- Not implemented. "execv()" is
C-specific, see "exec" in perlfunc.
- "execve"
- Not implemented. "execve()" is
C-specific, see "exec" in perlfunc.
- "execvp"
- Not implemented. "execvp()" is
C-specific, see "exec" in perlfunc.
- "exit"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"exit()" function for exiting the
program, see "exit" in perlfunc.
- "exp"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"exp()" function for returning the
exponent (e-based) of the numerical argument, see "exp"
in perlfunc.
- "expm1"
- Equivalent to "exp(x) - 1", but more
precise for small argument values [C99].
See also "log1p".
- "fabs"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"abs()" function for returning the
absolute value of the numerical argument, see "abs" in
perlfunc.
- "fclose"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::close()" instead, or see
"close" in perlfunc.
- "fcntl"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"fcntl()" function, see
"fcntl" in perlfunc.
- "fdopen"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::new_from_fd()" instead, or
see "open" in perlfunc.
- "feof"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::eof()" instead, or see
"eof" in perlfunc.
- "ferror"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::error()" instead.
- "fflush"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::flush()" instead. See also
""$OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH" in
perlvar".
- "fgetc"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::getc()" instead, or see
"read" in perlfunc.
- "fgetpos"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Seekable::getpos()" instead, or see
"seek" in perlfunc.
- "fgets"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::gets()" instead. Similar to
<>, also known as "readline" in perlfunc.
- "fileno"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::fileno()" instead, or see
"fileno" in perlfunc.
- "floor"
- This is identical to the C function
"floor()", returning the largest integer
value less than or equal to the numerical argument.
- "fdim"
- "Positive difference",
"x - y" if
"x > y", zero otherwise
[C99].
- "fegetround"
- Returns the current floating point rounding mode, one of
FE_TONEAREST FE_TOWARDZERO FE_UPWARD FE_UPWARD
"FE_TONEAREST" is like
"round", "FE_TOWARDZERO" is
like "trunc" [C99].
- "fesetround"
- Sets the floating point rounding mode, see "fegetround"
[C99].
- "fma"
- "Fused multiply-add",
"x * y + z",
possibly faster (and less lossy) than the explicit two operations [C99].
my $fused = POSIX::fma($x, $y, $z);
- "fmax"
- Maximum of "x" and
"y", except when either is
"NaN", returns the other [C99].
my $min = POSIX::fmax($x, $y);
- "fmin"
- Minimum of "x" and
"y", except when either is
"NaN", returns the other [C99].
my $min = POSIX::fmin($x, $y);
- "fmod"
- This is identical to the C function
"fmod()".
$r = fmod($x, $y);
It returns the remainder
"$r = $x - $n*$y",
where
"$n = trunc($x/$y)". The
$r has the same sign as
$x and magnitude (absolute value) less than the
magnitude of $y.
- "fopen"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::File::open()" instead, or see
"open" in perlfunc.
- "fork"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"fork()" function for duplicating the
current process, see "fork" in perlfunc and perlfork if you are
in Windows.
- "fpathconf"
- Retrieves the value of a configurable limit on a file or directory. This
uses file descriptors such as those obtained by calling
"POSIX::open".
The following will determine the maximum length of the longest
allowable pathname on the filesystem which holds /var/foo.
$fd = POSIX::open( "/var/foo", &POSIX::O_RDONLY );
$path_max = POSIX::fpathconf($fd, &POSIX::_PC_PATH_MAX);
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "fpclassify"
- Returns one of
FP_NORMAL FP_ZERO FP_SUBNORMAL FP_INFINITE FP_NAN
telling the class of the argument [C99].
"FP_INFINITE" is positive or negative
infinity, "FP_NAN" is not-a-number.
"FP_SUBNORMAL" means subnormal numbers
(also known as denormals), very small numbers with low precision.
"FP_ZERO" is zero.
"FP_NORMAL" is all the rest.
- "fprintf"
- Not implemented. "fprintf()" is
C-specific, see "printf" in perlfunc instead.
- "fputc"
- Not implemented. "fputc()" is
C-specific, see "print" in perlfunc instead.
- "fputs"
- Not implemented. "fputs()" is
C-specific, see "print" in perlfunc instead.
- "fread"
- Not implemented. "fread()" is
C-specific, see "read" in perlfunc instead.
- "free"
- Not implemented. "free()" is C-specific.
Perl does memory management transparently.
- "freopen"
- Not implemented. "freopen()" is
C-specific, see "open" in perlfunc instead.
- "frexp"
- Return the mantissa and exponent of a floating-point number.
($mantissa, $exponent) = POSIX::frexp( 1.234e56 );
- "fscanf"
- Not implemented. "fscanf()" is
C-specific, use <> and regular expressions instead.
- "fseek"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Seekable::seek()" instead, or see
"seek" in perlfunc.
- "fsetpos"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Seekable::setpos()" instead, or
seek "seek" in perlfunc.
- "fstat"
- Get file status. This uses file descriptors such as those obtained by
calling "POSIX::open". The data returned
is identical to the data from Perl's builtin
"stat" function.
$fd = POSIX::open( "foo", &POSIX::O_RDONLY );
@stats = POSIX::fstat( $fd );
- "fsync"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::sync()" instead.
- "ftell"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Seekable::tell()" instead, or see
"tell" in perlfunc.
- "fwrite"
- Not implemented. "fwrite()" is
C-specific, see "print" in perlfunc instead.
- "getc"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getc()" function, see "getc"
in perlfunc.
- "getchar"
- Returns one character from STDIN. Identical to Perl's
"getc()", see "getc" in
perlfunc.
- "getcwd"
- Returns the name of the current working directory. See also Cwd.
- "getegid"
- Returns the effective group identifier. Similar to Perl' s builtin
variable $(, see "$EGID" in
perlvar.
- "getenv"
- Returns the value of the specified environment variable. The same
information is available through the %ENV
array.
- "geteuid"
- Returns the effective user identifier. Identical to Perl's builtin
$> variable, see "$EUID" in
perlvar.
- "getgid"
- Returns the user's real group identifier. Similar to Perl's builtin
variable $), see "$GID" in perlvar.
- "getgrgid"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getgrgid()" function for returning
group entries by group identifiers, see "getgrgid" in
perlfunc.
- "getgrnam"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getgrnam()" function for returning
group entries by group names, see "getgrnam" in perlfunc.
- "getgroups"
- Returns the ids of the user's supplementary groups. Similar to Perl's
builtin variable $), see "$GID" in
perlvar.
- "getlogin"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getlogin()" function for returning the
user name associated with the current session, see "getlogin" in
perlfunc.
- "getpayload"
-
use POSIX ':nan_payload';
getpayload($var)
Returns the "NaN"
payload.
Note the API instability warning in
"setpayload".
See "nan" for more discussion about
"NaN".
- "getpgrp"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getpgrp()" function for returning the
process group identifier of the current process, see "getpgrp"
in perlfunc.
- "getpid"
- Returns the process identifier. Identical to Perl's builtin variable
$$, see "$PID" in perlvar.
- "getppid"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getppid()" function for returning the
process identifier of the parent process of the current process , see
"getppid" in perlfunc.
- "getpwnam"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getpwnam()" function for returning user
entries by user names, see "getpwnam" in perlfunc.
- "getpwuid"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"getpwuid()" function for returning user
entries by user identifiers, see "getpwuid" in perlfunc.
- "gets"
- Returns one line from "STDIN", similar
to <>, also known as the
"readline()" function, see
"readline" in perlfunc.
NOTE: if you have C programs that still use
"gets()", be very afraid. The
"gets()" function is a source of
endless grief because it has no buffer overrun checks. It should
never be used. The "fgets()"
function should be preferred instead.
- "getuid"
- Returns the user's identifier. Identical to Perl's builtin
$< variable, see "$UID" in
perlvar.
- "gmtime"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"gmtime()" function for converting
seconds since the epoch to a date in Greenwich Mean Time, see
"gmtime" in perlfunc.
- "hypot"
- Equivalent to
"sqrt(x * x + y * y)"
except more stable on very large or very small arguments [C99].
- "ilogb"
- Integer binary logarithm [C99]
For example "ilogb(20)" is
4, as an integer.
See also "logb".
- "Inf"
- The infinity as a constant:
use POSIX qw(Inf);
my $pos_inf = +Inf; # Or just Inf.
my $neg_inf = -Inf;
See also "isinf", and "fpclassify".
- "isalnum"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:alnum:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isalpha"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:alpha:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isatty"
- Returns a boolean indicating whether the specified filehandle is connected
to a tty. Similar to the "-t" operator,
see "-X" in perlfunc.
- "iscntrl"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:cntrl:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isdigit"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:digit:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isfinite"
- Returns true if the argument is a finite number (that is, not an infinity,
or the not-a-number) [C99].
See also "isinf", "isnan", and
"fpclassify".
- "isgraph"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:graph:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isgreater"
- (Also "isgreaterequal",
"isless",
"islessequal",
"islessgreater",
"isunordered")
Floating point comparisons which handle the
"NaN" [C99].
- "isinf"
- Returns true if the argument is an infinity (positive or negative) [C99].
See also "Inf", "isnan",
"isfinite", and "fpclassify".
- "islower"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:lower:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isnan"
- Returns true if the argument is "NaN"
(not-a-number) [C99].
Note that you cannot test for
""NaN"-ness" with
$x == $x
since the "NaN" is not
equivalent to anything, including itself.
See also "nan", "NaN", "isinf",
and "fpclassify".
- "isnormal"
- Returns true if the argument is normal (that is, not a subnormal/denormal,
and not an infinity, or a not-a-number) [C99].
See also "isfinite", and "fpclassify".
- "isprint"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:print:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "ispunct"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:punct:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "issignaling"
-
use POSIX ':nan_payload';
issignaling($var, $payload)
Return true if the argument is a signaling NaN.
Note the API instability warning in
"setpayload".
See "nan" for more discussion about
"NaN".
- "isspace"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:space:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isupper"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:upper:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "isxdigit"
- This function has been removed as of v5.24. It was very similar to
matching against
"qr/ ^ [[:xdigit:]]+ $ /x",
which you should convert to use instead. See "POSIX Character
Classes" in perlrecharclass.
- "j0"
- "j1"
- "jn"
- "y0"
- "y1"
- "yn"
- The Bessel function of the first kind of the order zero.
- "kill"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"kill()" function for sending signals to
processes (often to terminate them), see "kill" in
perlfunc.
- "labs"
- Not implemented. (For returning absolute values of long integers.)
"labs()" is C-specific, see
"abs" in perlfunc instead.
- "lchown"
- This is identical to the C function, except the order of arguments is
consistent with Perl's builtin "chown()"
with the added restriction of only one path, not a list of paths. Does the
same thing as the "chown()" function but
changes the owner of a symbolic link instead of the file the symbolic link
points to.
POSIX::lchown($uid, $gid, $file_path);
- "ldexp"
- This is identical to the C function
"ldexp()" for multiplying floating point
numbers with powers of two.
$x_quadrupled = POSIX::ldexp($x, 2);
- "ldiv"
- Not implemented. (For computing dividends of long integers.)
"ldiv()" is C-specific, use
"/" and
"int()" instead.
- "lgamma"
- The logarithm of the Gamma function [C99].
See also "tgamma".
- "log1p"
- Equivalent to
"log(1 + x)", but more
stable results for small argument values [C99].
- "log2"
- Logarithm base two [C99].
See also "expm1".
- "logb"
- Integer binary logarithm [C99].
For example "logb(20)" is 4,
as a floating point number.
See also "ilogb".
- "link"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"link()" function for creating hard
links into files, see "link" in perlfunc.
- "localeconv"
- Get numeric formatting information. Returns a reference to a hash
containing the current underlying locale's formatting values. Users of
this function should also read perllocale, which provides a comprehensive
discussion of Perl locale handling, including a section devoted to this
function. Prior to Perl 5.28, or when operating in a non thread-safe
environment, it should not be used in a threaded application unless it's
certain that the underlying locale is C or POSIX. This is because it
otherwise changes the locale, which globally affects all threads
simultaneously. Windows platforms starting with Visual Studio 2005 are
mostly thread-safe, but use of this function in those prior to Visual
Studio 2015 can interefere with a thread that has called
"switch_to_global_locale" in perlapi.
Here is how to query the database for the de (Deutsch
or German) locale.
my $loc = POSIX::setlocale( &POSIX::LC_ALL, "de" );
print "Locale: \"$loc\"\n";
my $lconv = POSIX::localeconv();
foreach my $property (qw(
decimal_point
thousands_sep
grouping
int_curr_symbol
currency_symbol
mon_decimal_point
mon_thousands_sep
mon_grouping
positive_sign
negative_sign
int_frac_digits
frac_digits
p_cs_precedes
p_sep_by_space
n_cs_precedes
n_sep_by_space
p_sign_posn
n_sign_posn
int_p_cs_precedes
int_p_sep_by_space
int_n_cs_precedes
int_n_sep_by_space
int_p_sign_posn
int_n_sign_posn
))
{
printf qq(%s: "%s",\n),
$property, $lconv->{$property};
}
The members whose names begin with
"int_p_" and
"int_n_" were added by POSIX.1-2008
and are only available on systems that support them.
- "localtime"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"localtime()" function for converting
seconds since the epoch to a date see "localtime" in perlfunc
except that "POSIX::localtime()" must be
provided an explicit value (rather than relying on an implicit
$_):
@localtime = POSIX::localtime(time); # good
@localtime = localtime(); # good
@localtime = POSIX::localtime(); # throws exception
- "log"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"log()" function, returning the natural
(e-based) logarithm of the numerical argument, see "log"
in perlfunc.
- "log10"
- This is identical to the C function
"log10()", returning the 10-base
logarithm of the numerical argument. You can also use
sub log10 { log($_[0]) / log(10) }
or
sub log10 { log($_[0]) / 2.30258509299405 }
or
sub log10 { log($_[0]) * 0.434294481903252 }
- "longjmp"
- Not implemented. "longjmp()" is
C-specific: use "die" in perlfunc instead.
- "lseek"
- Move the file's read/write position. This uses file descriptors such as
those obtained by calling "POSIX::open".
$fd = POSIX::open( "foo", &POSIX::O_RDONLY );
$off_t = POSIX::lseek( $fd, 0, &POSIX::SEEK_SET );
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "lrint"
- Depending on the current floating point rounding mode, rounds the argument
either toward nearest (like "round"), toward zero (like
"trunc"), downward (toward negative infinity), or upward (toward
positive infinity) [C99].
For the rounding mode, see "fegetround".
- "lround"
- Like "round", but as integer, as opposed to floating point
[C99].
See also "ceil", "floor",
"trunc".
Owing to an oversight, this is not currently exported by
default, or as part of the
":math_h_c99" export tag; importing it
must therefore be done by explicit name.
- "malloc"
- Not implemented. "malloc()" is
C-specific. Perl does memory management transparently.
- "mblen"
- This is identical to the C function
"mblen()".
Core Perl does not have any support for the wide and multibyte
characters of the C standards, except under UTF-8 locales, so this might
be a rather useless function.
However, Perl supports Unicode, see perluniintro.
- "mbstowcs"
- This is identical to the C function
"mbstowcs()".
See "mblen".
- "mbtowc"
- This is identical to the C function
"mbtowc()".
See "mblen".
- "memchr"
- Not implemented. "memchr()" is
C-specific, see "index" in perlfunc instead.
- "memcmp"
- Not implemented. "memcmp()" is
C-specific, use "eq" instead, see
perlop.
- "memcpy"
- Not implemented. "memcpy()" is
C-specific, use "=", see perlop, or see
"substr" in perlfunc.
- "memmove"
- Not implemented. "memmove()" is
C-specific, use "=", see perlop, or see
"substr" in perlfunc.
- "memset"
- Not implemented. "memset()" is
C-specific, use "x" instead, see
perlop.
- "mkdir"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"mkdir()" function for creating
directories, see "mkdir" in perlfunc.
- "mkfifo"
- This is similar to the C function
"mkfifo()" for creating FIFO special
files.
if (mkfifo($path, $mode)) { ....
Returns "undef" on failure.
The $mode is similar to the mode of
"mkdir()", see "mkdir" in
perlfunc, though for "mkfifo" you
must specify the $mode.
- "mktime"
- Convert date/time info to a calendar time.
Synopsis:
mktime(sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday = 0,
yday = 0, isdst = -1)
The month ("mon"), weekday
("wday"), and yearday
("yday") begin at zero, i.e.,
January is 0, not 1; Sunday is 0, not 1; January 1st is 0, not 1. The
year ("year") is given in years since
1900; i.e., the year 1995 is 95; the year 2001 is 101. Consult
your system's "mktime()" manpage for
details about these and the other arguments.
Calendar time for December 12, 1995, at 10:30 am.
$time_t = POSIX::mktime( 0, 30, 10, 12, 11, 95 );
print "Date = ", POSIX::ctime($time_t);
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "modf"
- Return the integral and fractional parts of a floating-point number.
($fractional, $integral) = POSIX::modf( 3.14 );
See also "round".
- "NaN"
- The not-a-number as a constant:
use POSIX qw(NaN);
my $nan = NaN;
See also "nan",
"/isnan", and
"fpclassify".
- "nan"
-
my $nan = nan();
Returns "NaN", not-a-number
[C99].
The returned NaN is always a quiet NaN, as opposed to
signaling.
With an argument, can be used to generate a NaN with
payload. The argument is first interpreted as a floating point
number, but then any fractional parts are truncated (towards zero), and
the value is interpreted as an unsigned integer. The bits of this
integer are stored in the unused bits of the NaN.
The result has a dual nature: it is a NaN, but it also carries
the integer inside it. The integer can be retrieved with
"getpayload". Note, though, that the payload is not
propagated, not even on copies, and definitely not in arithmetic
operations.
How many bits fit in the NaN depends on what kind of floating
points are being used, but on the most common platforms (64-bit IEEE
754, or the x86 80-bit long doubles) there are 51 and 61 bits available,
respectively. (There would be 52 and 62, but the quiet/signaling bit of
NaNs takes away one.) However, because of the floating-point-to-
integer-and-back conversions, please test carefully whether you get back
what you put in. If your integers are only 32 bits wide, you probably
should not rely on more than 32 bits of payload.
Whether a "signaling" NaN is in any way different
from a "quiet" NaN, depends on the platform. Also note that
the payload of the default NaN (no argument to nan()) is not
necessarily zero, use "setpayload" to
explicitly set the payload. On some platforms like the 32-bit x86,
(unless using the 80-bit long doubles) the signaling bit is not
supported at all.
See also "isnan", "NaN",
"setpayload" and "issignaling".
- "nearbyint"
- Returns the nearest integer to the argument, according to the current
rounding mode (see "fegetround") [C99].
- "nextafter"
- Returns the next representable floating point number after
"x" in the direction of
"y" [C99].
my $nextafter = POSIX::nextafter($x, $y);
Like "nexttoward", but potentially less
accurate.
- "nexttoward"
- Returns the next representable floating point number after
"x" in the direction of
"y" [C99].
my $nexttoward = POSIX::nexttoward($x, $y);
Like "nextafter", but potentially more accurate.
- "nice"
- This is similar to the C function
"nice()", for changing the scheduling
preference of the current process. Positive arguments mean a more polite
process, negative values a more needy process. Normal (non-root) user
processes can only change towards being more polite.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "offsetof"
- Not implemented. "offsetof()" is
C-specific, you probably want to see "pack" in perlfunc
instead.
- "open"
- Open a file for reading for writing. This returns file descriptors, not
Perl filehandles. Use "POSIX::close" to
close the file.
Open a file read-only with mode 0666.
$fd = POSIX::open( "foo" );
Open a file for read and write.
$fd = POSIX::open( "foo", &POSIX::O_RDWR );
Open a file for write, with truncation.
$fd = POSIX::open(
"foo", &POSIX::O_WRONLY | &POSIX::O_TRUNC
);
Create a new file with mode 0640. Set up the file for
writing.
$fd = POSIX::open(
"foo", &POSIX::O_CREAT | &POSIX::O_WRONLY, 0640
);
Returns "undef" on
failure.
See also "sysopen" in perlfunc.
- "opendir"
- Open a directory for reading.
$dir = POSIX::opendir( "/var" );
@files = POSIX::readdir( $dir );
POSIX::closedir( $dir );
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "pathconf"
- Retrieves the value of a configurable limit on a file or directory.
The following will determine the maximum length of the longest
allowable pathname on the filesystem which holds
"/var".
$path_max = POSIX::pathconf( "/var",
&POSIX::_PC_PATH_MAX );
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "pause"
- This is similar to the C function
"pause()", which suspends the execution
of the current process until a signal is received.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "perror"
- This is identical to the C function
"perror()", which outputs to the
standard error stream the specified message followed by
": " and the current error string. Use
the "warn()" function and the
$! variable instead, see "warn" in
perlfunc and "$ERRNO" in perlvar.
- "pipe"
- Create an interprocess channel. This returns file descriptors like those
returned by "POSIX::open".
my ($read, $write) = POSIX::pipe();
POSIX::write( $write, "hello", 5 );
POSIX::read( $read, $buf, 5 );
See also "pipe" in perlfunc.
- "pow"
- Computes $x raised to the power
$exponent.
$ret = POSIX::pow( $x, $exponent );
You can also use the "**"
operator, see perlop.
- "printf"
- Formats and prints the specified arguments to
"STDOUT". See also "printf" in
perlfunc.
- "putc"
- Not implemented. "putc()" is C-specific,
see "print" in perlfunc instead.
- "putchar"
- Not implemented. "putchar()" is
C-specific, see "print" in perlfunc instead.
- "puts"
- Not implemented. "puts()" is C-specific,
see "print" in perlfunc instead.
- "qsort"
- Not implemented. "qsort()" is
C-specific, see "sort" in perlfunc instead.
- "raise"
- Sends the specified signal to the current process. See also
"kill" in perlfunc and the $$ in
"$PID" in perlvar.
- "rand"
- Not implemented. "rand()" is
non-portable, see "rand" in perlfunc instead.
- "read"
- Read from a file. This uses file descriptors such as those obtained by
calling "POSIX::open". If the buffer
$buf is not large enough for the read then Perl
will extend it to make room for the request.
$fd = POSIX::open( "foo", &POSIX::O_RDONLY );
$bytes = POSIX::read( $fd, $buf, 3 );
Returns "undef" on
failure.
See also "sysread" in perlfunc.
- "readdir"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"readdir()" function for reading
directory entries, see "readdir" in perlfunc.
- "realloc"
- Not implemented. "realloc()" is
C-specific. Perl does memory management transparently.
- "remainder"
- Given "x" and
"y", returns the value
"x - n*y", where
"n" is the integer closest to
"x"/"y".
[C99]
my $remainder = POSIX::remainder($x, $y)
See also "remquo".
- "remove"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"unlink()" function for removing files,
see "unlink" in perlfunc.
- "remquo"
- Like "remainder" but also returns the low-order bits of the
quotient (n) [C99]
(This is quite esoteric interface, mainly used to implement
numerical algorithms.)
- "rename"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"rename()" function for renaming files,
see "rename" in perlfunc.
- "rewind"
- Seeks to the beginning of the file.
- "rewinddir"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"rewinddir()" function for rewinding
directory entry streams, see "rewinddir" in perlfunc.
- "rint"
- Identical to "lrint".
- "rmdir"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"rmdir()" function for removing (empty)
directories, see "rmdir" in perlfunc.
- "round"
- Returns the integer (but still as floating point) nearest to the argument
[C99].
See also "ceil", "floor",
"lround", "modf", and "trunc".
- "scalbn"
- Returns "x * 2**y" [C99].
See also "frexp" and "ldexp".
- "scanf"
- Not implemented. "scanf()" is
C-specific, use <> and regular expressions instead, see perlre.
- "setgid"
- Sets the real group identifier and the effective group identifier for this
process. Similar to assigning a value to the Perl's builtin
$) variable, see "$EGID" in perlvar,
except that the latter will change only the real user identifier, and that
the setgid() uses only a single numeric argument, as opposed to a
space-separated list of numbers.
- "setjmp"
- Not implemented. "setjmp()" is
C-specific: use "eval {}" instead, see
"eval" in perlfunc.
- "setlocale"
- WARNING! Do NOT use this function in a thread. The locale will change in
all other threads at the same time, and should your thread get paused by
the operating system, and another started, that thread will not have the
locale it is expecting. On some platforms, there can be a race leading to
segfaults if two threads call this function nearly simultaneously.
Modifies and queries the program's underlying locale. Users of
this function should read perllocale, whch provides a comprehensive
discussion of Perl locale handling, knowledge of which is necessary to
properly use this function. It contains a section devoted to this
function. The discussion here is merely a summary reference for
"setlocale()". Note that Perl itself
is almost entirely unaffected by the locale except within the scope of
"use locale". (Exceptions are
listed in "Not within the scope of "use locale"" in
perllocale.)
The following examples assume
use POSIX qw(setlocale LC_ALL LC_CTYPE);
has been issued.
The following will set the traditional UNIX system locale
behavior (the second argument
"C").
$loc = setlocale( LC_ALL, "C" );
The following will query the current
"LC_CTYPE" category. (No second
argument means 'query'.)
$loc = setlocale( LC_CTYPE );
The following will set the
"LC_CTYPE" behaviour according to the
locale environment variables (the second argument
""). Please see your system's
setlocale(3) documentation for the locale
environment variables' meaning or consult perllocale.
$loc = setlocale( LC_CTYPE, "" );
The following will set the
"LC_COLLATE" behaviour to Argentinian
Spanish. NOTE: The naming and availability of locales depends on
your operating system. Please consult perllocale for how to find out
which locales are available in your system.
$loc = setlocale( LC_COLLATE, "es_AR.ISO8859-1" );
- "setpayload"
-
use POSIX ':nan_payload';
setpayload($var, $payload);
Sets the "NaN" payload of
var.
NOTE: the NaN payload APIs are based on the latest (as of June
2015) proposed ISO C interfaces, but they are not yet a standard. Things
may change.
See "nan" for more discussion about
"NaN".
See also "setpayloadsig", "isnan",
"getpayload", and "issignaling".
- "setpayloadsig"
-
use POSIX ':nan_payload';
setpayloadsig($var, $payload);
Like "setpayload" but also makes the NaN
signaling.
Depending on the platform the NaN may or may not behave
differently.
Note the API instability warning in
"setpayload".
Note that because how the floating point formats work out, on
the most common platforms signaling payload of zero is best avoided,
since it might end up being identical to
"+Inf".
See also "nan", "isnan",
"getpayload", and "issignaling".
- "setpgid"
- This is similar to the C function
"setpgid()" for setting the process
group identifier of the current process.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "setsid"
- This is identical to the C function
"setsid()" for setting the session
identifier of the current process.
- "setuid"
- Sets the real user identifier and the effective user identifier for this
process. Similar to assigning a value to the Perl's builtin
$< variable, see "$UID" in perlvar,
except that the latter will change only the real user identifier.
- "sigaction"
- Detailed signal management. This uses
"POSIX::SigAction" objects for the
"action" and
"oldaction" arguments (the oldaction can
also be just a hash reference). Consult your system's
"sigaction" manpage for details, see
also "POSIX::SigRt".
Synopsis:
sigaction(signal, action, oldaction = 0)
Returns "undef" on failure.
The "signal" must be a number (like
"SIGHUP"), not a string (like
"SIGHUP"), though Perl does try hard
to understand you.
If you use the "SA_SIGINFO"
flag, the signal handler will in addition to the first argument, the
signal name, also receive a second argument, a hash reference, inside
which are the following keys with the following semantics, as defined by
POSIX/SUSv3:
signo the signal number
errno the error number
code if this is zero or less, the signal was sent by
a user process and the uid and pid make sense,
otherwise the signal was sent by the kernel
The constants for specific
"code" values can be imported
individually or using the
":signal_h_si_code" tag.
The following are also defined by POSIX/SUSv3, but
unfortunately not very widely implemented:
pid the process id generating the signal
uid the uid of the process id generating the signal
status exit value or signal for SIGCHLD
band band event for SIGPOLL
addr address of faulting instruction or memory
reference for SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV or SIGBUS
A third argument is also passed to the handler, which contains
a copy of the raw binary contents of the
"siginfo" structure: if a system has
some non-POSIX fields, this third argument is where to
"unpack()" them from.
Note that not all "siginfo"
values make sense simultaneously (some are valid only for certain
signals, for example), and not all values make sense from Perl
perspective, you should to consult your system's
"sigaction" and possibly also
"siginfo" documentation.
- "siglongjmp"
- Not implemented. "siglongjmp()" is
C-specific: use "die" in perlfunc instead.
- "signbit"
- Returns zero for positive arguments, non-zero for negative arguments
[C99].
- "sigpending"
- Examine signals that are blocked and pending. This uses
"POSIX::SigSet" objects for the
"sigset" argument. Consult your system's
"sigpending" manpage for details.
Synopsis:
sigpending(sigset)
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "sigprocmask"
- Change and/or examine calling process's signal mask. This uses
"POSIX::SigSet" objects for the
"sigset" and
"oldsigset" arguments. Consult your
system's "sigprocmask" manpage for
details.
Synopsis:
sigprocmask(how, sigset, oldsigset = 0)
Returns "undef" on
failure.
Note that you can't reliably block or unblock a signal from
its own signal handler if you're using safe signals. Other signals can
be blocked or unblocked reliably.
- "sigsetjmp"
- Not implemented. "sigsetjmp()" is
C-specific: use "eval {}" instead, see
"eval" in perlfunc.
- "sigsuspend"
- Install a signal mask and suspend process until signal arrives. This uses
"POSIX::SigSet" objects for the
"signal_mask" argument. Consult your
system's "sigsuspend" manpage for
details.
Synopsis:
sigsuspend(signal_mask)
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "sin"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"sin()" function for returning the sine
of the numerical argument, see "sin" in perlfunc. See also
Math::Trig.
- "sinh"
- This is identical to the C function
"sinh()" for returning the hyperbolic
sine of the numerical argument. See also Math::Trig.
- "sleep"
- This is functionally identical to Perl's builtin
"sleep()" function for suspending the
execution of the current for process for certain number of seconds, see
"sleep" in perlfunc. There is one significant difference,
however: "POSIX::sleep()" returns the
number of unslept seconds, while the
"CORE::sleep()" returns the number of
slept seconds.
- "sprintf"
- This is similar to Perl's builtin
"sprintf()" function for returning a
string that has the arguments formatted as requested, see
"sprintf" in perlfunc.
- "sqrt"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"sqrt()" function. for returning the
square root of the numerical argument, see "sqrt" in
perlfunc.
- "srand"
- Give a seed the pseudorandom number generator, see "srand" in
perlfunc.
- "sscanf"
- Not implemented. "sscanf()" is
C-specific, use regular expressions instead, see perlre.
- "stat"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"stat()" function for returning
information about files and directories.
- "strcat"
- Not implemented. "strcat()" is
C-specific, use ".=" instead, see
perlop.
- "strchr"
- Not implemented. "strchr()" is
C-specific, see "index" in perlfunc instead.
- "strcmp"
- Not implemented. "strcmp()" is
C-specific, use "eq" or
"cmp" instead, see perlop.
- "strcoll"
- This is identical to the C function
"strcoll()" for collating (comparing)
strings transformed using the
"strxfrm()" function. Not really needed
since Perl can do this transparently, see perllocale.
Beware that in a UTF-8 locale, anything you pass to this
function must be in UTF-8; and when not in a UTF-8 locale, anything
passed must not be UTF-8 encoded.
- "strcpy"
- Not implemented. "strcpy()" is
C-specific, use "=" instead, see
perlop.
- "strcspn"
- Not implemented. "strcspn()" is
C-specific, use regular expressions instead, see perlre.
- "strerror"
- Returns the error string for the specified errno. Identical to the string
form of $!, see "$ERRNO" in
perlvar.
- "strftime"
- Convert date and time information to string. Returns the string.
Synopsis:
strftime(fmt, sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year,
wday = -1, yday = -1, isdst = -1)
The month ("mon"), weekday
("wday"), and yearday
("yday") begin at zero, i.e.,
January is 0, not 1; Sunday is 0, not 1; January 1st is 0, not 1. The
year ("year") is given in years since
1900, i.e., the year 1995 is 95; the year 2001 is 101. Consult
your system's "strftime()" manpage for
details about these and the other arguments.
If you want your code to be portable, your format
("fmt") argument should use only the
conversion specifiers defined by the ANSI C standard (C89, to play
safe). These are
"aAbBcdHIjmMpSUwWxXyYZ%". But even
then, the results of some of the conversion specifiers are
non-portable. For example, the specifiers
"aAbBcpZ" change according to the
locale settings of the user, and both how to set locales (the locale
names) and what output to expect are non-standard. The specifier
"c" changes according to the timezone
settings of the user and the timezone computation rules of the operating
system. The "Z" specifier is
notoriously unportable since the names of timezones are non-standard.
Sticking to the numeric specifiers is the safest route.
The given arguments are made consistent as though by calling
"mktime()" before calling your
system's "strftime()" function, except
that the "isdst" value is not
affected.
The string for Tuesday, December 12, 1995.
$str = POSIX::strftime( "%A, %B %d, %Y",
0, 0, 0, 12, 11, 95, 2 );
print "$str\n";
- "strlen"
- Not implemented. "strlen()" is
C-specific, use "length()" instead, see
"length" in perlfunc.
- "strncat"
- Not implemented. "strncat()" is
C-specific, use ".=" instead, see
perlop.
- "strncmp"
- Not implemented. "strncmp()" is
C-specific, use "eq" instead, see
perlop.
- "strncpy"
- Not implemented. "strncpy()" is
C-specific, use "=" instead, see
perlop.
- "strpbrk"
- Not implemented. "strpbrk()" is
C-specific, use regular expressions instead, see perlre.
- "strrchr"
- Not implemented. "strrchr()" is
C-specific, see "rindex" in perlfunc instead.
- "strspn"
- Not implemented. "strspn()" is
C-specific, use regular expressions instead, see perlre.
- "strstr"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"index()" function, see
"index" in perlfunc.
- "strtod"
- String to double translation. Returns the parsed number and the number of
characters in the unparsed portion of the string. Truly POSIX-compliant
systems set $! ($ERRNO) to
indicate a translation error, so clear $! before
calling "strtod". However, non-POSIX
systems may not check for overflow, and therefore will never set
$!.
"strtod" respects any POSIX
"setlocale()"
"LC_TIME" settings, regardless of
whether or not it is called from Perl code that is within the scope of
"use locale". This means it
should not be used in a threaded application unless it's certain that
the underlying locale is C or POSIX. This is because it otherwise
changes the locale, which globally affects all threads
simultaneously.
To parse a string $str as a floating
point number use
$! = 0;
($num, $n_unparsed) = POSIX::strtod($str);
The second returned item and $! can be
used to check for valid input:
if (($str eq '') || ($n_unparsed != 0) || $!) {
die "Non-numeric input $str" . ($! ? ": $!\n" : "\n");
}
When called in a scalar context
"strtod" returns the parsed
number.
- "strtok"
- Not implemented. "strtok()" is
C-specific, use regular expressions instead, see perlre, or
"split" in perlfunc.
- "strtol"
- String to (long) integer translation. Returns the parsed number and the
number of characters in the unparsed portion of the string. Truly
POSIX-compliant systems set $!
($ERRNO) to indicate a translation error, so clear
$! before calling
"strtol". However, non-POSIX systems may
not check for overflow, and therefore will never set
$!.
"strtol" should respect any
POSIX setlocale() settings.
To parse a string $str as a number in
some base $base use
$! = 0;
($num, $n_unparsed) = POSIX::strtol($str, $base);
The base should be zero or between 2 and 36, inclusive. When
the base is zero or omitted "strtol"
will use the string itself to determine the base: a leading
"0x" or "0X" means hexadecimal; a leading
"0" means octal; any other leading characters mean decimal.
Thus, "1234" is parsed as a decimal number, "01234"
as an octal number, and "0x1234" as a hexadecimal number.
The second returned item and $! can be
used to check for valid input:
if (($str eq '') || ($n_unparsed != 0) || !$!) {
die "Non-numeric input $str" . $! ? ": $!\n" : "\n";
}
When called in a scalar context
"strtol" returns the parsed
number.
- "strtold"
- Like "strtod" but for long doubles. Defined only if the system
supports long doubles.
- "strtoul"
- String to unsigned (long) integer translation.
"strtoul()" is identical to
"strtol()" except that
"strtoul()" only parses unsigned
integers. See "strtol" for details.
Note: Some vendors supply
"strtod()" and
"strtol()" but not
"strtoul()". Other vendors that do
supply "strtoul()" parse
"-1" as a valid value.
- "strxfrm"
- String transformation. Returns the transformed string.
$dst = POSIX::strxfrm( $src );
Used in conjunction with the
"strcoll()" function, see
"strcoll".
Not really needed since Perl can do this transparently, see
perllocale.
Beware that in a UTF-8 locale, anything you pass to this
function must be in UTF-8; and when not in a UTF-8 locale, anything
passed must not be UTF-8 encoded.
- "sysconf"
- Retrieves values of system configurable variables.
The following will get the machine's clock speed.
$clock_ticks = POSIX::sysconf( &POSIX::_SC_CLK_TCK );
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "system"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"system()" function, see
"system" in perlfunc.
- "tan"
- This is identical to the C function
"tan()", returning the tangent of the
numerical argument. See also Math::Trig.
- "tanh"
- This is identical to the C function
"tanh()", returning the hyperbolic
tangent of the numerical argument. See also Math::Trig.
- "tcdrain"
- This is similar to the C function
"tcdrain()" for draining the output
queue of its argument stream.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "tcflow"
- This is similar to the C function
"tcflow()" for controlling the flow of
its argument stream.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "tcflush"
- This is similar to the C function
"tcflush()" for flushing the I/O buffers
of its argument stream.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "tcgetpgrp"
- This is identical to the C function
"tcgetpgrp()" for returning the process
group identifier of the foreground process group of the controlling
terminal.
- "tcsendbreak"
- This is similar to the C function
"tcsendbreak()" for sending a break on
its argument stream.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "tcsetpgrp"
- This is similar to the C function
"tcsetpgrp()" for setting the process
group identifier of the foreground process group of the controlling
terminal.
Returns "undef" on
failure.
- "tgamma"
- The Gamma function [C99].
See also "lgamma".
- "time"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"time()" function for returning the
number of seconds since the epoch (whatever it is for the system), see
"time" in perlfunc.
- "times"
- The "times()" function returns elapsed
realtime since some point in the past (such as system startup), user and
system times for this process, and user and system times used by child
processes. All times are returned in clock ticks.
($realtime, $user, $system, $cuser, $csystem)
= POSIX::times();
Note: Perl's builtin
"times()" function returns four
values, measured in seconds.
- "tmpfile"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::File::new_tmpfile()" instead, or
see File::Temp.
- "tmpnam"
- For security reasons, which are probably detailed in your system's
documentation for the C library
"tmpnam()" function, this interface is
no longer available; instead use File::Temp.
- "tolower"
- This is identical to the C function, except that it can apply to a single
character or to a whole string, and currently operates as if the locale
always is "C". Consider using the
"lc()" function, see "lc" in
perlfunc, see "lc" in perlfunc, or the equivalent
"\L" operator inside doublequotish
strings.
- "toupper"
- This is similar to the C function, except that it can apply to a single
character or to a whole string, and currently operates as if the locale
always is "C". Consider using the
"uc()" function, see "uc" in
perlfunc, or the equivalent "\U"
operator inside doublequotish strings.
- "trunc"
- Returns the integer toward zero from the argument [C99].
See also "ceil", "floor", and
"round".
- "ttyname"
- This is identical to the C function
"ttyname()" for returning the name of
the current terminal.
- "tzname"
- Retrieves the time conversion information from the
"tzname" variable.
POSIX::tzset();
($std, $dst) = POSIX::tzname();
- "tzset"
- This is identical to the C function
"tzset()" for setting the current
timezone based on the environment variable
"TZ", to be used by
"ctime()",
"localtime()",
"mktime()", and
"strftime()" functions.
- "umask"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"umask()" function for setting (and
querying) the file creation permission mask, see "umask" in
perlfunc.
- "uname"
- Get name of current operating system.
($sysname, $nodename, $release, $version, $machine)
= POSIX::uname();
Note that the actual meanings of the various fields are not
that well standardized, do not expect any great portability. The
$sysname might be the name of the operating
system, the $nodename might be the name of the
host, the $release might be the (major) release
number of the operating system, the $version
might be the (minor) release number of the operating system, and the
$machine might be a hardware identifier.
Maybe.
- "ungetc"
- Not implemented. Use method
"IO::Handle::ungetc()" instead.
- "unlink"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"unlink()" function for removing files,
see "unlink" in perlfunc.
- "utime"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"utime()" function for changing the time
stamps of files and directories, see "utime" in perlfunc.
- "vfprintf"
- Not implemented. "vfprintf()" is
C-specific, see "printf" in perlfunc instead.
- "vprintf"
- Not implemented. "vprintf()" is
C-specific, see "printf" in perlfunc instead.
- "vsprintf"
- Not implemented. "vsprintf()" is
C-specific, see "sprintf" in perlfunc instead.
- "wait"
- This is identical to Perl's builtin
"wait()" function, see "wait"
in perlfunc.
- "waitpid"
- Wait for a child process to change state. This is identical to Perl's
builtin "waitpid()" function, see
"waitpid" in perlfunc.
$pid = POSIX::waitpid( -1, POSIX::WNOHANG );
print "status = ", ($? / 256), "\n";
- "wcstombs"
- This is identical to the C function
"wcstombs()".
See "mblen".
- "wctomb"
- This is identical to the C function
"wctomb()".
See "mblen".
- "write"
- Write to a file. This uses file descriptors such as those obtained by
calling "POSIX::open".
$fd = POSIX::open( "foo", &POSIX::O_WRONLY );
$buf = "hello";
$bytes = POSIX::write( $fd, $buf, 5 );
Returns "undef" on
failure.
See also "syswrite" in perlfunc.