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NAME

6       APR::PerlIO -- Perl IO layer for APR
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Synopsis

9         # under mod_perl
10         use APR::PerlIO ();
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12         sub handler {
13             my $r = shift;
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15             die "This Perl build doesn't support PerlIO layers"
16                 unless APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED;
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18             open my $fh, ">:APR", $filename, $r->pool or die $!;
19             # work with $fh as normal $fh
20             close $fh;
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22             return Apache2::Const::OK;
23         }
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25         # outside mod_perl
26         % perl -MAPR -MAPR::PerlIO -MAPR::Pool -le \
27         'open my $fh, ">:APR", "/tmp/apr", APR::Pool->new or die "$!"; \
28          print $fh "whoah!"; \
29          close $fh;'
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Description

32       "APR::PerlIO" implements a Perl IO layer using APR's file manipulation
33       API internally.
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35       Why do you want to use this? Normally you shouldn't, probably it won't
36       be faster than Perl's default layer. It's only useful when you need to
37       manipulate a filehandle opened at the APR side, while using Perl.
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39       Normally you won't call open() with APR layer attribute, but some
40       mod_perl functions will return a filehandle which is internally hooked
41       to APR. But you can use APR Perl IO directly if you want.
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Prerequisites

44       Not every Perl will have full "APR::PerlIO" functionality available.
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46       Before using the Perl IO APR layer one has to check whether it's
47       supported by the used APR/Perl build. Perl 5.8.x or higher with perlio
48       enabled is required. You can check whether your Perl fits the bill by
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51         % perl -V:useperlio
52         useperlio='define';
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54       It should say define.
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56       If you need to do the checking in the code, there is a special constant
57       provided by "APR::PerlIO", which can be used as follows:
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59         use APR::PerlIO ();
60         die "This Perl build doesn't support PerlIO layers"
61             unless APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED;
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63       Notice that loading "APR::PerlIO" won't fail when Perl IO layers aren't
64       available since "APR::PerlIO" provides functionality for Perl builds
65       not supporting Perl IO layers.
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Constants

68   "APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED"
69       See Prerequisites.
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API

72       Most of the API is as in normal perl IO with a few nuances listed in
73       the following sections.
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75       META: need to rework the exception mechanism here. Current success in
76       using errno ($!) being set (e.g. on open()) is purely accidental and
77       not guaranteed across all platforms and functions. So don't rely on $!.
78       Will use "APR::Error" for that purpose.
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80   "open"
81       Open a file via APR Perl IO layer.
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83         open my $fh, ">:APR", $filename, $r->pool or die $!;
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85       arg1: $fh ( GLOB filehandle )
86           The filehandle.
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88       arg2: $mode ( string )
89           The mode to open the file, constructed from two sections separated
90           by the ":" character: the first section is the mode to open the
91           file under (>, <, etc) and the second section must be a string APR.
92           For more information refer to the open entry in the perlfunc
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95       arg3: $filename ( string )
96           The path to the filename to open
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98       arg4: $p ( "APR::Pool" )
99           The pool object to use to allocate APR::PerlIO layer.
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101       ret: ( integer )
102           success or failure value (boolean).
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104       since: 2.0.00
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106   "seek"
107       Sets $fh's position, just like the "seek()" Perl call:
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109         seek($fh, $offset, $whence);
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111       If $offset is zero, "seek()" works normally.
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113       However if $offset is non-zero and Perl has been compiled with with
114       large files support ("-Duselargefiles"), whereas APR wasn't, this
115       function will croak. This is because largefile size "Off_t" simply
116       cannot fit into a non-largefile size "apr_off_t".
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118       To solve the problem, rebuild Perl with "-Uuselargefiles". Currently
119       there is no way to force APR to build with large files support.
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121       since: 2.0.00
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C API

124       The C API provides functions to convert between Perl IO and APR Perl IO
125       filehandles.
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127       META: document these
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See Also

130       mod_perl 2.0 documentation. The perliol(1), perlapio(1) and perl(1)
131       manpages.
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134       mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache
135       Software License, Version 2.0.
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Authors

138       The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors.
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