Mark Overmeer - Platform Incompatibilities
Channel: OSDC Nordic
Date: 2015-05-30

Writing Perl in a platform independent way is not too hard (certainly compared to other languages), but sometimes you want to do platform specific things.

POSIX.pm in core offers a few platform specific functions.  Very limited, many mistakes.  POSIX::1003 offers much, much more.  And now, that module is (ab)used via cpantesters to collect details from platforms which have never been collected before.  See http://posix.cpan6.net