The fsync() function takes a Perl file handle as its only argument, and passes its fileno() to the C function fsync(). It returns *undef* on failure, or *true* on success. fdatasync() is identical in return value, but it calls C fdatasync() instead o...

File::DirSync will make two directories exactly the same. The goal is to perform this syncronization process as quickly as possible with as few stats and reads and writes as possible. It usually can perform the syncronization process within a few mil...

File::Map maps files or anonymous memory into perl variables. Advantages of memory mapping * Unlike normal perl variables, mapped memory is (usually) shared between threads or forked processes. * It is an efficient way to slurp an entire file. Unlike...

This module provides convenience wrappers around "open" and "sysopen" for opening simple files and a wrapper around "opendir" for opening directories. Nothing is exported by default; you have to specify every function you want to import explicitly. F...

File::HashCache is an automatic versioning scheme for arbitrary files based on the hash of the contents of the files themselves. It aims to be painless for the developer and very fast. File::HashCache solves the problem in web development where you u...

This module offers atomic file writes via a temporary file created in the same directory (and therefore probably the same partition) as the specified file. After data has been written to the temporary file, the "rename" system call is used to replace...

This class implements file-specific methods. Most of them are simple wrappers of the equivalents from various File::* or IO::* classes. See also Path::Class::Entity for common methods like "copy" and "move"....

InflateColumn::File...

Lower level than F:R:M:Recent, handles one recentfile. Whereas a tree is always composed of several recentfiles, controlled by the F:R:M:Recent object. The Recentfile object has to do the bookkeeping for a single timeslice....