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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1997-12-24 04:21:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1997-12-24 04:21:30 +0000 |
| commit | f998180f71571d04f7a71972eb8eb78805338f5c (patch) | |
| tree | b8dfd588a195e6aacb01d3878a7f08d2d94b4153 /README.win32 | |
| parent | e34ffe5a86599b66240875a414d90fdf19ed7649 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f998180f71571d04f7a71972eb8eb78805338f5c.tar.gz | |
[win32] support ioctl() on sockets (does what ioctlsocket() does) to make
non-blocking IO on sockets possible
p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@387
Diffstat (limited to 'README.win32')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 940c498e43..3727b2cf95 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ The following functions are currently unavailable: C<fork()>, C<dump()>, C<chown()>, C<link()>, C<symlink()>, C<chroot()>, C<setpgrp()> and related security functions, C<setpriority()>, C<getpriority()>, C<syscall()>, C<fcntl()>, C<getpw*()>, -C<wait*()>, C<msg*()>, C<shm*()>, C<sem*()>, C<ioctl()>, C<alarm()>, +C<wait*()>, C<msg*()>, C<shm*()>, C<sem*()>, C<alarm()>, C<socketpair()>, C<*netent()>, C<*protoent()>, C<*servent()>, C<*hostent()>, C<getnetby*()>. This list is possibly incomplete. @@ -519,6 +519,11 @@ The four-argument C<select()> call is only supported on sockets. =item * +The C<ioctl()> call is only supported on sockets (where it provides the +functionality of ioctlsocket() in the Winsock API). + +=item * + C<$?> ends up with the exitstatus of the subprocess (this is different from Unix, where the exitstatus is actually given by "$? >> 8"). Failure to spawn() the subprocess is indicated by setting $? to |