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NAME
Raku port of Perl's Net::protoent module
SYNOPSIS
use Net::protoent;
my $p = getprotobyname('tcp') || die "no proto";
printf "proto for %s is %d, aliases are %s\n",
$p.name, $p.proto, "$p.aliases()";
use Net::protoent qw(:FIELDS);
getprotobyname('tcp') || die "no proto";
print "proto for $p_name is $p_proto, aliases are @p_aliases\n";
DESCRIPTION
This module tries to mimic the behaviour of Perl's Net::protoent
module as closely as possible in the Raku Programming Language.
This module's exports getprotobyname
, getprotobynumber
, and getprotoent
functions that return Netr::protoent
objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's protoent structure from netdb.h, stripped of their leading "p_" parts, namely name, aliases, and proto.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. Access these fields as variables named with a preceding p_ in front their method names. Thus, p_name if you import the fields.
The getproto
function is a simple front-end that forwards a numeric argument to getprotobynumber
and the rest to getprotobyname
.
PORTING CAVEATS
This module depends on the availability of POSIX semantics. This is generally not available on Windows, so this module will probably not work on Windows.
AUTHOR
Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]
Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/Net-protoent . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen
Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.