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CONTENTS

NAME

Amiga::Exec - Perl extension for low level amiga support

ABSTRACT

This a perl class / module to enables you to use various low level Amiga features such as waiting on an Exec signal

SYNOPSIS

# Wait for signla

use Amiga::Exec;
my $result = Amiga::ARexx->Wait('SignalMask' => $signalmask, 'TimeOut' => $timeoutinusecs);                                                                          );

DESCRIPTION

The interface to Exec in entirely encapsulated within the perl class, there is no need to access the low level methods directly and they are not exported by default.

Amiga::ARexx METHODS

Wait

$signals = Amiga::Exec->Wait('SignalMask' => $signalmask,
                             'TimeOut' => $timeoutinusecs );

Wait on a signal set with optional timeout. The result ($signals) should be checked to determine which signal was raised. It will be 0 for timeout.

Signal

The signal Exec signal mask

TimeOut

optional time out in microseconds.

EXPORT

None by default.

Exportable constants

None

AUTHOR

Andy Broad <andy@broad.ology.org.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013 by Andy Broad.