NAME

POSIX::1003::Confstr - POSIX access to confstr()

INHERITANCE

 POSIX::1003::Confstr
   is a POSIX::1003

SYNOPSIS

  use POSIX::1003::Confstr;   # import all

  use POSIX::1003::Confstr 'confstr';
  my $path = confstr('_CS_PATH');

  use POSIX::1003::Confstr '_CS_PATH';
  my $path = _CS_PATH;

  use POSIX::1003::Confstr '%confstr';
  my $key = $confstr{_CS_PATH};
  $confstr{_CS_NEW_CONF} = $key;

FUNCTIONS

Standard POSIX

confstr(NAME)

Returns the confstr value related to the NAMEd constant. The NAME must be a string. undef will be returned when the NAME is not known by the system.

example:

  my $path = confstr('_CS_PATH') || '/bin:/usr/bin';

Additional

confstr_names()

Returns a list with all known names, unsorted.

CONSTANTS

%confstr

This exported variable is a (tied) HASH which maps _CS_* names to the unique numbers to be used with the system's confstr() function.

The following constants where detected on your system when the module got installed. The second column shows the value which where returned at that time.

   If you install the module, the table will be filled-in here

SEE ALSO

This module is part of POSIX-1003 distribution version 0.10, built on January 04, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net. The code is based on POSIX, which is released with Perl itself.

COPYRIGHTS

Copyrights of the perl code and the related documentation by 2011-2012 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html