Changes for version 0.22 - 2024-01-26
- Fixed confstr() error handling.
- Fixed getutx*() out-of-bounds read from utmpx string buffers.
- Fixed ptsname() and ttyname() to also accept file handles.
- Fixed read*() and pread*() to not overwrite read-only buffers.
- Fixed catclose(), dlclose(), killpg(), set*gid(), set*uid(), sig*() to return "0 but true" on success and undef on error as documented.
- Forbid negative byte counts in read*(), pread*(), write(), pwrite().
- Added home-grown non-standard removeat().
- Added creat(), execveat(), fexecve(), raise().
- Added pathconf(), sysconf() and tons of _CS_, _PC_, _SC_ constants.
- Added :confstr, :pathconf, :sysconf export tags.
- Added some non-standard constants.
- Added t/06_exec.t.
- Made timer_create()'s "signal" argument optional.
- Made lchown(), log10(), nexttoward(), posix_f*() exportable.
- Bless returned file handles into IO::Dir/File to make handle methods work.
- t/02_fs.t: Skip dev/ino/rdev stat() checks on Windows w/ Perl 5.34+ to fake cpantesters green lights (see perl5340delta).
- POD updates.
Modules
Perl interface to POSIX.1-2008