NAME
Linux::FD - Linux specific special filehandles
VERSION
version 0.017
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.