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Diffstat (limited to 'Porting/Glossary')
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/Glossary | 49 |
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index 88c12cd48a..fe7e630ee9 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U): d_gethent (d_gethent.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is - available to dup file descriptors. + available to look up host names in some data base or another. d_gethname (d_gethname.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which @@ -397,6 +397,23 @@ d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U): indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available to look up networks by their IP addresses. +d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available + to look up networks by their names. + +d_getpbyname (d_getprotby.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME + symbol, which indicates to the C program that the + getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols + by their name. + +d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER + symbol, which indicates to the C program that the + getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols + by their number. + d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function @@ -420,6 +437,18 @@ d_getprior (d_getprior.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority() is available to get a process's priority. +d_getsbyname (d_getsrvby.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME + symbol, which indicates to the C program that the + getservbyname() routine is available to look up services + by their name. + +d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT + symbol, which indicates to the C program that the + getservbyport() routine is available to look up services + by their port. + d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a @@ -543,6 +572,12 @@ d_nice (d_nice.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available. +d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U): + This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol, + and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old + draft POSIX threads API. This is only potneially meaningful if + usethreads is set. + d_oldsock (d_socket.U): This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2. @@ -697,6 +732,10 @@ d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U): indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available to set the list of process groups. +d_sethent (d_sethent.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is + available. + d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available @@ -1014,6 +1053,10 @@ dlsrc (dlsrc.U): This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that will be used with the package. +doublesize (doublesize.U): + This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which + indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double. + dynamic_ext (Extensions.U): This variable holds a list of extension files we want to link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile. @@ -1696,6 +1739,10 @@ prototype (prototype.U): This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which indicates the C compiler can handle funciton prototypes. +ptrsize (ptrsize.U): + This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which + indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer. + randbits (randbits.U): This variable contains the eventual value of the RANDBITS symbol, which indicates to the C program how many bits of random number |