Errno(3perl) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Errno(3perl)
NAME
Errno - System errno constants
SYNOPSIS
use Errno qw(EINTR EIO :POSIX);
DESCRIPTION
"Errno" defines and conditionally exports all the error constants defined in your system
errno.h include file. It has a single export tag, ":POSIX", which will export all POSIX
defined error numbers.
On Windows, "Errno" also defines and conditionally exports all the Winsock error constants
defined in your system WinError.h include file. These are included in a second export tag,
":WINSOCK".
"Errno" also makes "%!" magic such that each element of "%!" has a non-zero value only if
$! is set to that value. For example:
my $fh;
unless (open($fh, "<", "/fangorn/spouse")) {
if ($!{ENOENT}) {
warn "Get a wife!\n";
} else {
warn "This path is barred: $!";
}
}
If a specified constant "EFOO" does not exist on the system, $!{EFOO} returns "". You may
use "exists $!{EFOO}" to check whether the constant is available on the system.
Perl automatically loads "Errno" the first time you use "%!", so you don't need an
explicit "use".
CAVEATS
Importing a particular constant may not be very portable, because the import will fail on
platforms that do not have that constant. A more portable way to set $! to a valid value
is to use:
if (exists &Errno::EFOO) {
$! = &Errno::EFOO;
}
AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr AT pobox.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997-8 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you
can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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