NAME

APR:PerlIO -- An APR Perl IO layer

SYNOPSIS

  # under mod_perl
  use APR::PerlIO ();
  
  sub handler {
      my $r = shift;
  
      die "This Perl build doesn't support PerlIO layers"
          unless APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED;
  
      open my $fh, ">:APR", $filename, $r->pool or die $!;
      # work with $fh as normal $fh
      close $fh;
  
      return Apache::OK;
  }

  # outside mod_perl
  % perl -MApache2 -MAPR -MAPR::PerlIO -MAPR::Pool -le \
  'open my $fh, ">:APR", "/tmp/apr", APR::Pool->new or die "$!"; \
   print $fh "whoah!"; \
   close $fh;'

DESCRIPTION

APR::PerlIO implements a Perl IO layer using APR's file manipulation as its internals.

Why do you want to use this? Normally you shouldn't, probably it won't be faster than Perl's default layer. It's only useful when you need to manipulate a filehandle opened at the APR side, while using Perl.

Normally you won't call open() with APR layer attribute, but some mod_perl functions will return a filehandle which is internally hooked to APR. But you can use APR Perl IO directly if you want.

Constants

PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED

Before using the Perl IO APR layer one has to check whether it's supported by the used perl build.

  die "This Perl build doesn't support PerlIO layers"
      unless APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED;

Notice that loading APR::PerlIO won't fail when Perl IO layers aren't available since APR::PerlIO provides functionality for Perl builds not supporting Perl IO layers.

API

Perl Interface:

open()

To use APR Perl IO to open a file the four arguments open() should be used. For example:

  open my $fh, ">:APR", $filename, $r->pool or die $!;

where:

the second argument is the mode to open the file, constructed from two sections separated by the : character: the first section is the mode to open the file under (>, <, etc) and the second section must be a string APR.

the fourth argument must be an APR::Pool object.

the rest of the arguments are the same as described by the open() manpage.

seek()

  seek($fh, $offset, $whence);

If $offset is zero, seek() works normally.

However if $offset is non-zero and Perl has been compiled with with large files support (-Duselargefiles), whereas APR wasn't, this function will croak. This is because largefile size Off_t simply cannot fit into a non-largefile size apr_off_t.

To solve the problem, rebuild Perl with -Uuselargefiles. Currently there is no way to force APR to build with large files support.

C API

The C API provides functions to convert between Perl IO and APR Perl IO filehandles.

META: document these

SEE ALSO

The perliol(1), perlapio(1) and perl(1) manpages.

cpanm mod_perl

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install mod_perl