• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• BUGS
• AUTHOR
• SEE ALSO

NAME

IO::Dir::Dirfd - Perl extension to extract the file descriptor from a dirhandle

SYNOPSIS

  use IO::Dir::Dirfd;

  opendir D, "." or die $!;
  my $fd = dirfd(D);

  use IO::Dir::Dirfd qw(fileno);

  opendir D, "." or die $!;
  my $fd = fileno(D);

DESCRIPTION

The IO::Dir::Dirfd module provides the possibility to extract the file descriptor from a directory handle on platforms where this functionality is available.

It exports a single sub, dirfd(), by default. If you specify that you want to export fileno(), the core fileno() will be overrided. After this you can use fileno() for both file- and dirhandles.

BUGS

As of now, the module was only tested on FreeBSD 4.4 and FreeBSD 5.0; there's no garantee it will work as advertised elsewehere (or even on FreeBSD, for that matter).

It is possible that the fileno(HANDLE) form will not work under all circumstances. Use fileno(*HANDLE) instead if in doubt.

AUTHOR

Anton Berezin, tobez@catpipe.net

SEE ALSO

dirfd(3).