The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
perlcall – Perl calling conventions from C DescriptionThe purpose of this document is to show you how to call Perl subroutines directly from C, i.e., how to write callbacks. Apart from discussing the C interface provided by Perl for writing callbacks the document uses a series of examples to show how the interface actually works…
perlbug – how to submit bug reports on Perl Synopsisperlbug perlbug [ -v ] [ -a address ] [ -s subject ] [ -b body | -f inputfile ] [ -F outputfile ] [ -r returnaddress ] [ -e editor ] [ -c adminaddress | -C ] [ -S ] [ -t ] [ -d ] [ -h ] [ -T ] perlbug [ -v ] [ -r returnaddress ] [ -ok | -okay | -nok | -nokay ] perlthanks DescriptionThis program is designed to help you generate bug reports (and thank-you notes) about perl5 and the modules which ship with it. In most cases, you…
perlbs2000 – building and installing Perl for BS2000. This document needs to be updated, but we don’t know what it should say. Please email comments to perlbug [at] perl.org <mailto:perlbug [at] perl.org>. SynopsisThis document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on BS2000 in the POSIX subsystem. DescriptionThis is a ported perl for…
perlbot – Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl DescriptionFor information on OO programming with Perl, please see perlootut and perlobj. (The above documents supersede the collection of tricks that was formerly here in perlbot.)
perlbook – Books about and related to Perl DescriptionThere are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are good, some are OK, but many aren’t worth your money. There is a list of these books, some with extensive reviews, at <http://books.perl.org/> . We list some of the books here, and while listing…
perlbeos – Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS DescriptionThis file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists known problems. Build And InstallRequirementsI have built and tested Perl 5.8.6 and 5.9.1 under BeOS R5 x86 net server. I can’t say anything with regard to PPC. Since Perl 5.8.0 had been released for BeOS BONE,…
Perlbal – Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver DescriptionFor now, see example configuration files in conf/ from the CPAN tarball http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perlbal/ Authors Brad Fitzpatrick, <brad [at] danga.com> Mark Smith, <marksmith [at] danga.com>See Also http://www.danga.com/perlbal/Copyright And LicenseCopyright 2004, Danga Interactive, Inc. Copyright 2005-2007, Six Apart, Ltd. You can use and redistribute Perlbal under the same terms as…
perlartistic – the Perl Artistic License Synopsis You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>" Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic"DescriptionPerl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;…
README.apollo – Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS DescriptionThe following tests are known to fail as of Perl 5.005_03: comp/decl……….FAILED at test 0 op/write………..FAILED at test 0 lib/filefind…….FAILED at test 2 lib/io_udp………FAILED at test 2 lib/findbin……..stat(/ressel/ABT/USER/vta/jk/proj.local/perl/perl5.005_03-MAINT_TRIAL_5/t/lib/): No such file or directory at ../lib/FindBin.pm line 162 stat(/ressel/ABT/USER/vta/jk/proj.local/perl/perl5.005_03-MAINT_TRIAL_5/t/lib/): No such file or directory at ../lib/FindBin.pm line 163…
perlapio – perl’s IO abstraction interface. Synopsis #define PERLIO_NOT_STDIO 0 /* For co-existence with stdio only */ #include <perlio.h> /* Usually via #include <perl.h> */ PerlIO *PerlIO_stdin(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_stdout(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_stderr(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_open(const char *path,const char *mode); PerlIO *PerlIO_fdopen(int fd, const char *mode); PerlIO *PerlIO_reopen(const char *path, /* deprecated */ const char *mode, PerlIO *old);…
perlapi – autogenerated documentation for the perl public API DescriptionThis file contains the documentation of the perl public API generated by embed.pl, specifically a listing of functions, macros, flags, and variables that may be used by extension writers. At the end is a list of functions which have yet to be documented. The interfaces of…
perlandroid – Perl under Android SynopsisThe first portions of this documents contains instructions to cross-compile Perl for Android 2.0 and later, using the binaries provided by Google. The latter portion describes how to build perl native using one of the toolchains available on the Play Store. DescriptionThis document describes how to set up your host…
perlamiga – Perl under AmigaOS 4.1 NoteThis is a port of Perl 5.22.1, it is a fresh port and not in any way compatible with my previous ports of Perl 5.8 and 5.16.3. This means you will need to reinstall / rebuild any third party modules you have installed. newlib.library version 53.28 or greater is…
perlaix – Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems DescriptionThis document describes various features of IBM‘s UNIX operating system AIX that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Compiling Perl 5 on AIXFor information on compilers on older versions of AIX, see “Compiling Perl 5 on older AIX…
perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler Synopsis perl6 [switches] [–] [programfile] [arguments]DescriptionWith no arguments, enters a REPL. With a "[programfile]" or the "-e" option, compiles the given program and by default also executes the compiled code. -c check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks) –doc extract documentation and print it as text -e program…
perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler Synopsis perl6 [switches] [–] [programfile] [arguments]DescriptionWith no arguments, enters a REPL. With a "[programfile]" or the "-e" option, compiles the given program and by default also executes the compiled code. -c check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks) –doc extract documentation and print it as text -e program…
perl595delta – what is new for perl v5.9.5 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.4 and the 5.9.5 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta, perl592delta, perl593delta and perl594delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.4. Incompatible ChangesTainting and printfWhen perl is run under taint mode, "printf()" and "sprintf()" will now reject any tainted format argument. (Rafael…
perl594delta – what is new for perl v5.9.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.3 and the 5.9.4 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta, perl592delta and perl593delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.3. Incompatible Changeschdir FOOA bareword argument to chdir() is now recognized as a file handle. Earlier releases interpreted the bareword as a directory…
perl593delta – what is new for perl v5.9.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.2 and the 5.9.3 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta and perl592delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.2. Incompatible ChangesParsing of -f _The identifier "_" is now forced to be a bareword after a filetest operator. This solves a number of…
perl592delta – what is new for perl v5.9.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.1 and the 5.9.2 development releases. See perl590delta and perl591delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.1. Incompatible ChangesPacking and UTF-8 stringsThe semantics of pack() and unpack() regarding UTF-8-encoded data has been changed. Processing is now by default character per character…