C Library Routines



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C Library Routines

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.