C Library Routines
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Many C library routines can be accessed in Perl. This is a sampling of
them.
- getpw, getgr, ...
- Perl has access to all of the C
routines which access passwd, group, and hostname information.
- bind, connect, socket, ...
- Interprocess communication
facilities are available in Perl.
- stat
- Access file information via the UNIX stat(2)
library routine.
- exit
- Exit the program with the specified exit status.