Solaris::Package is a class module that reads in the information from a pkginfo file for a Solaris package. It can be spawned from a Solaris::InstallDB object, or it can be used as a standalone object....

The Solaris::InstallDB class manages a directory of Solaris packages. It searches for all of the packages in a directory, and then records them in a hash table by name and architecture. It is also capable of spawning a Solaris::Contents object. With ...

This module provides access to the system level "acl"(2) call, allowing efficient setting and reading of Access Control Lists (ACLs) in perl. ACL provides the following functions: setfacl($path, $acl [, $default_acl]) Set the ACL of the file or direc...

Modern applications tend to consume more and more memory as more memory and computer power become available, so the importance of large array handling has been increasing. Also, the relative importance of memory efficiency is becoming higher and high...

This module is an interface the /proc filesystem on Solaris systems. Each process on a Solaris system has a corresponding directory under /proc, named after the process id. In each of these directories are a series of files and subdirectories, which ...

Solaris::Contents is an object oriented interface into the /var/sadm/install/contents file which Solaris uses to keep track of all the files installed on a system, and their corresponding packages....

Solaris::Patchdiag is a class for accessing the content of the patchdiag.xref file, which is a file Sun puts out to list patches available for the Solaris operating system. An instance method of the class reads in the file, and accessor methods allow...

This module is used to create software packages in a format suitable for installation with pkgadd. The process of creating packages is baised upon the document Application Packaging Developer's Guide. Which can be found at http://docs.sun.com/ab2/@Le...