package Mknod; use strict; use warnings; use Carp; require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw( mknod S_IFREG S_IFIFO S_IFBLK S_IFCHR ); our $VERSION = '0.02'; require XSLoader; XSLoader::load('Mknod', $VERSION); # Preloaded methods go here. sub mknod { if (defined $_[2]) { goto &mknod3; } if (defined $_[1]) { goto &mknod2; } else { print Carp::shortmess("Usage: mknod(file, mode [,dev])"); return 0; } } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Mknod - Perl extension for the mknod(2) call =head1 SYNOPSIS use Mknod; # create a pipe mknod('hole', S_IFIFO|0644); # or a device mknod('ttyS0', S_IFCHR|0644, 4|64); =head1 DESCRIPTION It seemed to me this system call wasnt available to perl yet. If I was just looking in the wrong place, please let me know:) Returns 1 on ok and 0 on failure. =head2 EXPORT mknod() S_IFREG S_IFIFO S_IFBLK S_IFCHR This behaviour can be prevented: use Mknod (); Mknod::mknod(...) =head1 SEE ALSO mknod(1) mknod(2) =head1 AUTHOR Raoul Zwart, Erlzwart@cpan.org =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2003 by Raoul Zwart This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut