second--glance appear to be an lvalue context may be fixed in a future
release.
+See L<perlref/"Pseudo-hashes"> for specifics on how exists() acts when
+used on a pseudo-hash.
+
=item exit EXPR
Evaluates EXPR and exits immediately with that value. Example:
$rec = join(':', $login,$passwd,$uid,$gid,$gcos,$home,$shell);
-See L</split>.
+Beware that unlike C<split>, C<join> doesn't take a pattern as its
+first argument. Compare L</split>.
=item keys HASH
See also C<each>, C<values> and C<sort>.
-=item kill LIST
+=item kill SIGNAL, LIST
-Sends a signal to a list of processes. The first element of
-the list must be the signal to send. Returns the number of
+Sends a signal to a list of processes. Returns the number of
processes successfully signaled (which is not necessarily the
same as the number actually killed).
$cnt = kill 1, $child1, $child2;
kill 9, @goners;
-Unlike in the shell, in Perl if the I<SIGNAL> is negative, it kills
+If SIGNAL is zero, no signal is sent to the process. This is a
+useful way to check that the process is alive and hasn't changed
+its UID. See L<perlport> for notes on the portability of this
+construct.
+
+Unlike in the shell, if SIGNAL is negative, it kills
process groups instead of processes. (On System V, a negative I<PROCESS>
number will also kill process groups, but that's not portable.) That
means you usually want to use positive not negative signals. You may also
C<eval {}>, C<sub {}> or C<do {}>, and should not be used to exit
a grep() or map() operation.
+Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
+that executes once. Thus C<last> can be used to effect an early
+exit out of such a block.
+
See also L</continue> for an illustration of how C<last>, C<next>, and
C<redo> work.
=item my EXPR
+=item my EXPR : ATTRIBUTES
+
A C<my> declares the listed variables to be local (lexically) to the
enclosing block, file, or C<eval>. If
more than one value is listed, the list must be placed in parentheses. See
C<eval {}>, C<sub {}> or C<do {}>, and should not be used to exit
a grep() or map() operation.
+Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
+that executes once. Thus C<next> will exit such a block early.
+
See also L</continue> for an illustration of how C<last>, C<next>, and
C<redo> work.
EXPR is omitted, uses C<$_>. For the reverse, see L</chr>.
See L<utf8> for more about Unicode.
+=item our EXPR
+
+An C<our> declares the listed variables to be valid globals within
+the enclosing block, file, or C<eval>. That is, it has the same
+scoping rules as a "my" declaration, but does not create a local
+variable. If more than one value is listed, the list must be placed
+in parentheses. The C<our> declaration has no semantic effect unless
+"use strict vars" is in effect, in which case it lets you use the
+declared global variable without qualifying it with a package name.
+(But only within the lexical scope of the C<our> declaration. In this
+it differs from "use vars", which is package scoped.)
+
=item pack TEMPLATE,LIST
-Takes a list of values and packs it into a binary structure,
-returning the string containing the structure. The TEMPLATE is a
+Takes a LIST of values and converts it into a string using the rules
+given by the TEMPLATE. The resulting string is the concatenation of
+the converted values. Typically, each converted value looks
+like its machine-level representation. For example, on 32-bit machines
+a converted integer may be represented by a sequence of 4 bytes.
+
+The TEMPLATE is a
sequence of characters that give the order and type of values, as
follows:
A An ascii string, will be space padded.
Z A null terminated (asciz) string, will be null padded.
- b A bit string (ascending bit order, like vec()).
- B A bit string (descending bit order).
+ b A bit string (ascending bit order inside each byte, like vec()).
+ B A bit string (descending bit order inside each byte).
h A hex string (low nybble first).
H A hex string (high nybble first).
count. With all types except C<"a">, C<"A">, C<"Z">, C<"b">, C<"B">, C<"h">,
C<"H">, and C<"P"> the pack function will gobble up that many values from
the LIST. A C<*> for the repeat count means to use however many items are
-left.
+left, except for C<"@">, C<"x">, C<"X">, where it is equivalent
+to C<"0">, and C<"u">, where it is equivalent to 1 (or 45, what is the
+same).
+
+When used with C<"Z">, C<*> results in the addition of a trailing null
+byte (so the packed result will be one longer than the byte C<length>
+of the item).
+
+The repeat count for C<"u"> is interpreted as the maximal number of bytes
+to encode per line of output, with 0 and 1 replaced by 45.
=item *
The C<"a">, C<"A">, and C<"Z"> types gobble just one value, but pack it as a
string of length count, padding with nulls or spaces as necessary. When
unpacking, C<"A"> strips trailing spaces and nulls, C<"Z"> strips everything
-after the first null, and C<"a"> returns data verbatim.
+after the first null, and C<"a"> returns data verbatim. When packing,
+C<"a">, and C<"Z"> are equivalent.
+
+If the value-to-pack is too long, it is truncated. If too long and an
+explicit count is provided, C<"Z"> packs only C<$count-1> bytes, followed
+by a null byte. Thus C<"Z"> always packs a trailing null byte under
+all circumstances.
=item *
Likewise, the C<"b"> and C<"B"> fields pack a string that many bits long.
+Each byte of the input field generates 1 bit of the result basing on
+the least-signifant bit of each input byte, i.e., on C<ord($byte)%2>.
+In particular, bytes C<"0"> and C<"1"> generate bits 0 and 1.
+
+Starting from the beginning of the input string, each 8-tuple of bytes
+is converted to 1 byte of output. If the length of the input string
+is not divisible by 8, the remainder is packed as if padded by 0s.
+Similarly, during unpack()ing the "extra" bits are ignored.
+
+If the input string is longer than needed, extra bytes are ignored.
+A C<*> for the repeat count of pack() means to use all the bytes of
+the input field. On unpack()ing the bits are converted to a string
+of C<"0">s and C<"1">s.
=item *
potentially get deallocated before you get around to using the packed result).
The C<"P"> type packs a pointer to a structure of the size indicated by the
length. A NULL pointer is created if the corresponding value for C<"p"> or
-C<"P"> is C<undef>.
+C<"P"> is C<undef>, similarly for unpack().
=item *
-The C<"#"> character allows packing and unpacking of strings where the
+The C<"/"> character allows packing and unpacking of strings where the
packed structure contains a byte count followed by the string itself.
-You write I<length-item>C<#>I<string-item>.
+You write I<length-item>C</>I<string-item>.
The I<length-item> can be any C<pack> template letter,
and describes how the length value is packed.
For C<unpack> the length of the string is obtained from the I<length-item>,
but if you put in the '*' it will be ignored.
- unpack 'C#a', "\04Gurusamy"; gives 'Guru'
- unpack 'a3#A* A*', '007 Bond J '; gives (' Bond','J')
- pack 'n#a* w#a*','hello,','world'; gives "\000\006hello,\005world"
+ unpack 'C/a', "\04Gurusamy"; gives 'Guru'
+ unpack 'a3/A* A*', '007 Bond J '; gives (' Bond','J')
+ pack 'n/a* w/a*','hello,','world'; gives "\000\006hello,\005world"
The I<length-item> is not returned explicitly from C<unpack>.
print $Config{longsize}, "\n";
print $Config{longlongsize}, "\n";
-(The C<$Config{longlongsize}> will be empty if your system does
+(The C<$Config{longlongsize}> will be undefine if your system does
not support long longs.)
=item *
The integer formats C<"s">, C<"S">, C<"i">, C<"I">, C<"l">, and C<"L">
are inherently non-portable between processors and operating systems
because they obey the native byteorder and endianness. For example a
-4-byte integer 0x87654321 (2271560481 decimal) be ordered natively
+4-byte integer 0x12345678 (305419896 decimal) be ordered natively
(arranged in and handled by the CPU registers) into bytes as
0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 # little-endian
Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, April 1, 1980) and
the egg-eating habits of the Lilliputians.
-Some systems may even have weird byte orders such as
+Some systems may have even weirder byte orders such as
0x56 0x78 0x12 0x34
0x34 0x12 0x78 0x56
C<pack> (and C<unpack>) handle their output and input as flat
sequences of bytes.
+=item *
+
+A comment in a TEMPLATE starts with C<#> and goes to the end of line.
+
+=item *
+
+If TEMPLATE requires more arguments to pack() than actually given, pack()
+assumes additional C<""> arguments. If TEMPLATE requires less arguments
+to pack() than actually given, extra arguments are ignored.
+
=back
Examples:
=item recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS
Receives a message on a socket. Attempts to receive LENGTH bytes of
-data into variable SCALAR from the specified SOCKET filehandle.
-Actually does a C C<recvfrom>, so that it can return the address of the
-sender. Returns the undefined value if there's an error. SCALAR will
-be grown or shrunk to the length actually read. Takes the same flags
-as the system call of the same name.
-See L<perlipc/"UDP: Message Passing"> for examples.
+data into variable SCALAR from the specified SOCKET filehandle. SCALAR
+will be grown or shrunk to the length actually read. Takes the same
+flags as the system call of the same name. Returns the address of the
+sender if SOCKET's protocol supports this; returns an empty string
+otherwise. If there's an error, returns the undefined value. This call
+is actually implemented in terms of recvfrom(2) system call. See
+L<perlipc/"UDP: Message Passing"> for examples.
=item redo LABEL
C<eval {}>, C<sub {}> or C<do {}>, and should not be used to exit
a grep() or map() operation.
+Note that a block by itself is semantically identical to a loop
+that executes once. Thus C<redo> inside such a block will effectively
+turn it into a looping construct.
+
See also L</continue> for an illustration of how C<last>, C<next>, and
C<redo> work.
Sets FILEHANDLE's position, just like the C<fseek> call of C<stdio>.
FILEHANDLE may be an expression whose value gives the name of the
filehandle. The values for WHENCE are C<0> to set the new position to
-POSITION, C<1> to set it to the current position plus POSITION, and C<2> to
-set it to EOF plus POSITION (typically negative). For WHENCE you may
-use the constants C<SEEK_SET>, C<SEEK_CUR>, and C<SEEK_END> from either the
-C<IO::Seekable> or the POSIX module. Returns C<1> upon success, C<0> otherwise.
+POSITION, C<1> to set it to the current position plus POSITION, and
+C<2> to set it to EOF plus POSITION (typically negative). For WHENCE
+you may use the constants C<SEEK_SET>, C<SEEK_CUR>, and C<SEEK_END>
+(start of the file, current position, end of the file) from any of the
+modules Fcntl, C<IO::Seekable>, or POSIX. Returns C<1> upon success,
+C<0> otherwise.
If you want to position file for C<sysread> or C<syswrite>, don't use
C<seek>--buffering makes its effect on the file's system position
Sets the current process group for the specified PID, C<0> for the current
process. Will produce a fatal error if used on a machine that doesn't
-implement setpgrp(2). If the arguments are omitted, it defaults to
-C<0,0>. Note that the POSIX version of C<setpgrp> does not accept any
-arguments, so only C<setpgrp(0,0)> is portable. See also C<POSIX::setsid()>.
+implement POSIX setpgid(2) or BSD setpgrp(2). If the arguments are omitted,
+it defaults to C<0,0>. Note that the BSD 4.2 version of C<setpgrp> does not
+accept any arguments, so only C<setpgrp(0,0)> is portable. See also
+C<POSIX::setsid()>.
=item setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY
for integer
l interpret integer as C type "long" or "unsigned long"
h interpret integer as C type "short" or "unsigned short"
+ If no flags, interpret integer as C type "int" or "unsigned"
There is also one Perl-specific flag:
point in formatted real numbers is affected by the LC_NUMERIC locale.
See L<perllocale>.
+To cope with broken systems that allow the standard locales to be
+overridden by malicious users, the return value may be tainted
+if any of the floating point formats are used and the conversion
+yields something that doesn't look like a normal C-locale floating
+point number. This happens regardless of whether C<use locale> is
+in effect or not.
+
+If Perl understands "quads" (64-bit integers) (this requires
+either that the platform natively supports quads or that Perl
+has been specifically compiled to support quads), the characters
+
+ d u o x X b i D U O
+
+print quads, and they may optionally be preceded by
+
+ ll L q
+
+For example
+
+ %lld %16LX %qo
+
+You can find out whether your Perl supports quads via L<Config>:
+
+ use Config;
+ ($Config{use64bits} eq 'define' || $Config{longsize} == 8) &&
+ print "quads\n";
+
+If Perl understands "long doubles" (this requires that the platform
+supports long doubles), the flags
+
+ e f g E F G
+
+may optionally be preceded by
+
+ ll L
+
+For example
+
+ %llf %Lg
+
+You can find out whether your Perl supports long doubles via L<Config>:
+
+ use Config;
+ $Config{d_longdbl} eq 'define' && print "long doubles\n";
+
=item sqrt EXPR
=item sqrt
=item sub NAME BLOCK
This is subroutine definition, not a real function I<per se>. With just a
-NAME (and possibly prototypes), it's just a forward declaration. Without
-a NAME, it's an anonymous function declaration, and does actually return a
-value: the CODE ref of the closure you just created. See L<perlsub> and
-L<perlref> for details.
+NAME (and possibly prototypes or attributes), it's just a forward declaration.
+Without a NAME, it's an anonymous function declaration, and does actually
+return a value: the CODE ref of the closure you just created. See L<perlsub>
+and L<perlref> for details.
=item substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT
The possible values and flag bits of the MODE parameter are
system-dependent; they are available via the standard module C<Fcntl>.
+See the documentation of your operating system's C<open> to see which
+values and flag bits are available. You may combine several flags
+using the C<|>-operator.
+
+Some of the most common values are C<O_RDONLY> for opening the file in
+read-only mode, C<O_WRONLY> for opening the file in write-only mode,
+and C<O_RDWR> for opening the file in read-write mode, and.
+
For historical reasons, some values work on almost every system
supported by perl: zero means read-only, one means write-only, and two
means read/write. We know that these values do I<not> work under
OS/390 & VM/ESA Unix and on the Macintosh; you probably don't want to
-use them in new code.
+se them in new code, use thhe constants discussed in the preceding
+paragraph.
If the file named by FILENAME does not exist and the C<open> call creates
it (typically because MODE includes the C<O_CREAT> flag), then the value of
These permission values need to be in octal, and are modified by your
process's current C<umask>.
+In many systems the C<O_EXCL> flag is available for opening files in
+exclusive mode. This is B<not> locking: exclusiveness means here that
+if the file already exists, sysopen() fails. The C<O_EXCL> wins
+C<O_TRUNC>.
+
+Sometimes you may want to truncate an already-existing file: C<O_TRUNC>.
+
You should seldom if ever use C<0644> as argument to C<sysopen>, because
that takes away the user's option to have a more permissive umask.
Better to omit it. See the perlfunc(1) entry on C<umask> for more
Sets FILEHANDLE's system position using the system call lseek(2). It
bypasses stdio, so mixing this with reads (other than C<sysread>),
-C<print>, C<write>, C<seek>, C<tell>, or C<eof> may cause
-confusion. FILEHANDLE may be an expression whose value gives the name
-of the filehandle. The values for WHENCE are C<0> to set the new
-position to POSITION, C<1> to set the it to the current position plus
-POSITION, and C<2> to set it to EOF plus POSITION (typically negative).
-For WHENCE, you may use the constants C<SEEK_SET>, C<SEEK_CUR>, and
-C<SEEK_END> from either the C<IO::Seekable> or the POSIX module.
+C<print>, C<write>, C<seek>, C<tell>, or C<eof> may cause confusion.
+FILEHANDLE may be an expression whose value gives the name of the
+filehandle. The values for WHENCE are C<0> to set the new position to
+POSITION, C<1> to set the it to the current position plus POSITION,
+and C<2> to set it to EOF plus POSITION (typically negative). For
+WHENCE, you may also use the constants C<SEEK_SET>, C<SEEK_CUR>, and
+C<SEEK_END> (start of the file, current position, end of the file)
+from any of the modules Fcntl, C<IO::Seekable>, or POSIX.
Returns the new position, or the undefined value on failure. A position
of zero is returned as the string C<"0 but true">; thus C<sysseek> returns
=item unpack TEMPLATE,EXPR
C<unpack> does the reverse of C<pack>: it takes a string
-representing a structure and expands it out into a list of values.
+and expands it out into a list of values.
(In scalar context, it returns merely the first value produced.)
+
+The string is broken into chunks described by the TEMPLATE. Each chunk
+is converted separately to a value. Typically, either the string is a result
+of C<pack>, or the bytes of the string represent a C structure of some
+kind.
+
The TEMPLATE has the same format as in the C<pack> function.
Here's a subroutine that does substring:
sub ordinal { unpack("c",$_[0]); } # same as ord()
-In addition, you may prefix a field with a %E<lt>numberE<gt> to indicate that
+In addition to fields allowed in pack(), you may prefix a field with
+a %E<lt>numberE<gt> to indicate that
you want a E<lt>numberE<gt>-bit checksum of the items instead of the items
-themselves. Default is a 16-bit checksum. For example, the following
+themselves. Default is a 16-bit checksum. Checksum is calculated by
+summing numeric values of expanded values (for string fields the sum of
+C<ord($char)> is taken, for bit fields the sum of zeroes and ones).
+
+For example, the following
computes the same number as the System V sum program:
$checksum = do {
corresponds to a valid memory location, passing a pointer value that's
not known to be valid is likely to have disastrous consequences.
+If the repeat count of a field is larger than what the remainder of
+the input string allows, repeat count is decreased. If the input string
+is longer than one described by the TEMPLATE, the rest is ignored.
+
See L</pack> for more examples and notes.
=item untie VARIABLE
use integer;
use diagnostics;
- use sigtrap qw(SEGV BUS);
- use strict qw(subs vars refs);
- use subs qw(afunc blurfl);
- use warning qw(all);
+ use sigtrap qw(SEGV BUS);
+ use strict qw(subs vars refs);
+ use subs qw(afunc blurfl);
+ use warnings qw(all);
Some of these pseudo-modules import semantics into the current
block scope (like C<strict> or C<integer>, unlike ordinary modules,
no integer;
no strict 'refs';
- no warning;
+ no warnings;
If no C<unimport> method can be found the call fails with a fatal error.
=item vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS
-Treats the string in EXPR as a vector of unsigned integers, and
-returns the value of the bit field specified by OFFSET. BITS specifies
-the number of bits that are reserved for each entry in the bit
-vector. This must be a power of two from 1 to 32. C<vec> may also be
-assigned to, in which case parentheses are needed to give the expression
-the correct precedence as in
+Treats the string in EXPR as a bit vector made up of elements of
+width BITS, and returns the value of the element specified by OFFSET
+as an unsigned integer. BITS therefore specifies the number of bits
+that are reserved for each element in the bit vector. This must
+be a power of two from 1 to 32 (or 64, if your platform supports
+that).
+
+C<vec> may also be assigned to, in which case parentheses are needed
+to give the expression the correct precedence as in
vec($image, $max_x * $x + $y, 8) = 3;
Vectors created with C<vec> can also be manipulated with the logical
-operators C<|>, C<&>, and C<^>, which will assume a bit vector operation is
-desired when both operands are strings. See L<perlop/"Bitwise String Operators">.
+operators C<|>, C<&>, and C<^>, which will assume a bit vector
+operation is desired when both operands are strings.
+See L<perlop/"Bitwise String Operators">.
The following code will build up an ASCII string saying C<'PerlPerlPerl'>.
The comments show the string after each step. Note that this code works
my $foo = '';
vec($foo, 0, 32) = 0x5065726C; # 'Perl'
+
+ # $foo eq "Perl" eq "\x50\x65\x72\x6C", 32 bits
+ print vec($foo, 0, 8); # prints 80 == 0x50 == ord('P')
+
vec($foo, 2, 16) = 0x5065; # 'PerlPe'
vec($foo, 3, 16) = 0x726C; # 'PerlPerl'
vec($foo, 8, 8) = 0x50; # 'PerlPerlP'
If you know the exact length in bits, it can be used in place of the C<*>.
+Here is an example to illustrate how the bits actually fall in place:
+
+ #!/usr/bin/perl -wl
+
+ print <<'EOT';
+ 0 1 2 3
+ unpack("V",$_) 01234567890123456789012345678901
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ EOT
+
+ for $w (0..3) {
+ $width = 2**$w;
+ for ($shift=0; $shift < $width; ++$shift) {
+ for ($off=0; $off < 32/$width; ++$off) {
+ $str = pack("B*", "0"x32);
+ $bits = (1<<$shift);
+ vec($str, $off, $width) = $bits;
+ $res = unpack("b*",$str);
+ $val = unpack("V", $str);
+ write;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ format STDOUT =
+ vec($_,@#,@#) = @<< == @######### @>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
+ $off, $width, $bits, $val, $res
+ .
+ __END__
+
+Regardless of the machine architecture on which it is run, the above
+example should print the following table:
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ unpack("V",$_) 01234567890123456789012345678901
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ vec($_, 0, 1) = 1 == 1 10000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 1) = 1 == 2 01000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 1) = 1 == 4 00100000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 1) = 1 == 8 00010000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 4, 1) = 1 == 16 00001000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 5, 1) = 1 == 32 00000100000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 6, 1) = 1 == 64 00000010000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 7, 1) = 1 == 128 00000001000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 8, 1) = 1 == 256 00000000100000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 9, 1) = 1 == 512 00000000010000000000000000000000
+ vec($_,10, 1) = 1 == 1024 00000000001000000000000000000000
+ vec($_,11, 1) = 1 == 2048 00000000000100000000000000000000
+ vec($_,12, 1) = 1 == 4096 00000000000010000000000000000000
+ vec($_,13, 1) = 1 == 8192 00000000000001000000000000000000
+ vec($_,14, 1) = 1 == 16384 00000000000000100000000000000000
+ vec($_,15, 1) = 1 == 32768 00000000000000010000000000000000
+ vec($_,16, 1) = 1 == 65536 00000000000000001000000000000000
+ vec($_,17, 1) = 1 == 131072 00000000000000000100000000000000
+ vec($_,18, 1) = 1 == 262144 00000000000000000010000000000000
+ vec($_,19, 1) = 1 == 524288 00000000000000000001000000000000
+ vec($_,20, 1) = 1 == 1048576 00000000000000000000100000000000
+ vec($_,21, 1) = 1 == 2097152 00000000000000000000010000000000
+ vec($_,22, 1) = 1 == 4194304 00000000000000000000001000000000
+ vec($_,23, 1) = 1 == 8388608 00000000000000000000000100000000
+ vec($_,24, 1) = 1 == 16777216 00000000000000000000000010000000
+ vec($_,25, 1) = 1 == 33554432 00000000000000000000000001000000
+ vec($_,26, 1) = 1 == 67108864 00000000000000000000000000100000
+ vec($_,27, 1) = 1 == 134217728 00000000000000000000000000010000
+ vec($_,28, 1) = 1 == 268435456 00000000000000000000000000001000
+ vec($_,29, 1) = 1 == 536870912 00000000000000000000000000000100
+ vec($_,30, 1) = 1 == 1073741824 00000000000000000000000000000010
+ vec($_,31, 1) = 1 == 2147483648 00000000000000000000000000000001
+ vec($_, 0, 2) = 1 == 1 10000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 2) = 1 == 4 00100000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 2) = 1 == 16 00001000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 2) = 1 == 64 00000010000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 4, 2) = 1 == 256 00000000100000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 5, 2) = 1 == 1024 00000000001000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 6, 2) = 1 == 4096 00000000000010000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 7, 2) = 1 == 16384 00000000000000100000000000000000
+ vec($_, 8, 2) = 1 == 65536 00000000000000001000000000000000
+ vec($_, 9, 2) = 1 == 262144 00000000000000000010000000000000
+ vec($_,10, 2) = 1 == 1048576 00000000000000000000100000000000
+ vec($_,11, 2) = 1 == 4194304 00000000000000000000001000000000
+ vec($_,12, 2) = 1 == 16777216 00000000000000000000000010000000
+ vec($_,13, 2) = 1 == 67108864 00000000000000000000000000100000
+ vec($_,14, 2) = 1 == 268435456 00000000000000000000000000001000
+ vec($_,15, 2) = 1 == 1073741824 00000000000000000000000000000010
+ vec($_, 0, 2) = 2 == 2 01000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 2) = 2 == 8 00010000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 2) = 2 == 32 00000100000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 2) = 2 == 128 00000001000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 4, 2) = 2 == 512 00000000010000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 5, 2) = 2 == 2048 00000000000100000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 6, 2) = 2 == 8192 00000000000001000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 7, 2) = 2 == 32768 00000000000000010000000000000000
+ vec($_, 8, 2) = 2 == 131072 00000000000000000100000000000000
+ vec($_, 9, 2) = 2 == 524288 00000000000000000001000000000000
+ vec($_,10, 2) = 2 == 2097152 00000000000000000000010000000000
+ vec($_,11, 2) = 2 == 8388608 00000000000000000000000100000000
+ vec($_,12, 2) = 2 == 33554432 00000000000000000000000001000000
+ vec($_,13, 2) = 2 == 134217728 00000000000000000000000000010000
+ vec($_,14, 2) = 2 == 536870912 00000000000000000000000000000100
+ vec($_,15, 2) = 2 == 2147483648 00000000000000000000000000000001
+ vec($_, 0, 4) = 1 == 1 10000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 4) = 1 == 16 00001000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 4) = 1 == 256 00000000100000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 4) = 1 == 4096 00000000000010000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 4, 4) = 1 == 65536 00000000000000001000000000000000
+ vec($_, 5, 4) = 1 == 1048576 00000000000000000000100000000000
+ vec($_, 6, 4) = 1 == 16777216 00000000000000000000000010000000
+ vec($_, 7, 4) = 1 == 268435456 00000000000000000000000000001000
+ vec($_, 0, 4) = 2 == 2 01000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 4) = 2 == 32 00000100000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 4) = 2 == 512 00000000010000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 4) = 2 == 8192 00000000000001000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 4, 4) = 2 == 131072 00000000000000000100000000000000
+ vec($_, 5, 4) = 2 == 2097152 00000000000000000000010000000000
+ vec($_, 6, 4) = 2 == 33554432 00000000000000000000000001000000
+ vec($_, 7, 4) = 2 == 536870912 00000000000000000000000000000100
+ vec($_, 0, 4) = 4 == 4 00100000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 4) = 4 == 64 00000010000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 4) = 4 == 1024 00000000001000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 4) = 4 == 16384 00000000000000100000000000000000
+ vec($_, 4, 4) = 4 == 262144 00000000000000000010000000000000
+ vec($_, 5, 4) = 4 == 4194304 00000000000000000000001000000000
+ vec($_, 6, 4) = 4 == 67108864 00000000000000000000000000100000
+ vec($_, 7, 4) = 4 == 1073741824 00000000000000000000000000000010
+ vec($_, 0, 4) = 8 == 8 00010000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 4) = 8 == 128 00000001000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 4) = 8 == 2048 00000000000100000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 4) = 8 == 32768 00000000000000010000000000000000
+ vec($_, 4, 4) = 8 == 524288 00000000000000000001000000000000
+ vec($_, 5, 4) = 8 == 8388608 00000000000000000000000100000000
+ vec($_, 6, 4) = 8 == 134217728 00000000000000000000000000010000
+ vec($_, 7, 4) = 8 == 2147483648 00000000000000000000000000000001
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 1 == 1 10000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 1 == 256 00000000100000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 1 == 65536 00000000000000001000000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 1 == 16777216 00000000000000000000000010000000
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 2 == 2 01000000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 2 == 512 00000000010000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 2 == 131072 00000000000000000100000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 2 == 33554432 00000000000000000000000001000000
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 4 == 4 00100000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 4 == 1024 00000000001000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 4 == 262144 00000000000000000010000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 4 == 67108864 00000000000000000000000000100000
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 8 == 8 00010000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 8 == 2048 00000000000100000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 8 == 524288 00000000000000000001000000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 8 == 134217728 00000000000000000000000000010000
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 16 == 16 00001000000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 16 == 4096 00000000000010000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 16 == 1048576 00000000000000000000100000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 16 == 268435456 00000000000000000000000000001000
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 32 == 32 00000100000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 32 == 8192 00000000000001000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 32 == 2097152 00000000000000000000010000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 32 == 536870912 00000000000000000000000000000100
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 64 == 64 00000010000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 64 == 16384 00000000000000100000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 64 == 4194304 00000000000000000000001000000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 64 == 1073741824 00000000000000000000000000000010
+ vec($_, 0, 8) = 128 == 128 00000001000000000000000000000000
+ vec($_, 1, 8) = 128 == 32768 00000000000000010000000000000000
+ vec($_, 2, 8) = 128 == 8388608 00000000000000000000000100000000
+ vec($_, 3, 8) = 128 == 2147483648 00000000000000000000000000000001
+
=item wait
Behaves like the wait(2) system call on your system: it waits for a child
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