Platform incompatibilities

50 minutes

Intermediate

English 

Writing Perl in a platform independent way is not too hard (certainly compared to other languages), but sometimes you want to do platform specific things.

POSIX.pm in core offers a few platform specific functions. VWriting Perl in a platform independent way is not too hard (certainly compared to other languages), but sometimes you want to do platform specific things.

POSIX.pm in core offers a few platform specific functions. Very limited, with many mistakes. POSIX::1003 offers much, much more. And now, that module is (ab)used via cpantesters to collect details from platforms which have never been collected before. See http://posix.cpan6.netery limited, many mistakes. POSIX::1003 offers much, much more. And now, that module is (ab)used via cpantesters to collect details from platforms which have never been collected before. See http://posix.cpan6.net