mojave man page for errno

Query: errno

OS: mojave

Section: 3pm

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Errno(3pm)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide						Errno(3pm)

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. "Errno" also makes "%!" magic such that each element of "%!" has a non-zero value only if $! is set to that value. For example: use Errno; unless (open(FH, "/fangorn/spouse")) { if ($!{ENOENT}) { warn "Get a wife! "; } 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.
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@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. perl v5.18.2 2017-10-07 Errno(3pm)
Related Man Pages
io::poll(3pm) - redhat
errno5.18(3pm) - mojave
io::pipe(3pm) - centos
io::pipe(3pm) - mojave
io::poll5.16(3pm) - osx
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