Perl::OSType
NAME
Perl::OSType - Map Perl operating system names to generic types
VERSION
version 1.002
SYNOPSIS
- use Perl::OSType ':all';
- $current_type = os_type();
- $other_type = os_type('dragonfly'); # gives 'Unix'
DESCRIPTION
Modules that provide OS-specific behaviors often need to know if the current operating system matches a more generic type of operating systems. For example, 'linux' is a type of 'Unix' operating system and so is 'freebsd'.
This module provides a mapping between an operating system name as given by
$^O
and a more generic type. The initial version is based on the OS type
mappings provided in Module::Build and ExtUtils::CBuilder. (Thus,
Microsoft operating systems are given the type 'Windows' rather than 'Win32'.)
USAGE
No functions are exported by default. The export tag ":all" will export all functions listed below.
os_type()
- $os_type = os_type();
- $os_type = os_type('MSWin32');
Returns a single, generic OS type for a given operating system name. With no
arguments, returns the OS type for the current value of $^O
. If the
operating system is not recognized, the function will return the empty string.
is_os_type()
- $is_windows = is_os_type('Windows');
- $is_unix = is_os_type('Unix', 'dragonfly');
Given an OS type and OS name, returns true or false if the OS name is of the
given type. As with os_type
, it will use the current operating system as a
default if no OS name is provided.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by David Golden.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.