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APR::PerlIO -- Perl IO layer for APR
# under mod_perl
use APR::PerlIO ();
sub handler {
my $r = shift;
die "This Perl build doesn't support PerlIO layers"
unless APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED;
open my $fh, ">:APR", $filename, $r->pool or die $!;
# work with $fh as normal $fh
close $fh;
return Apache2::Const::OK;
}
# outside mod_perl % perl -MAPR -MAPR::PerlIO -MAPR::Pool -le \ 'open my $fh, ">:APR", "/tmp/apr", APR::Pool->new or die "$!"; \ print $fh "whoah!"; \ close $fh;'
APR::PerlIO implements a Perl IO layer using APR's file
manipulation API internally.
Why do you want to use this? Normally you shouldn't, probably it won't be faster than Perl's default layer. It's only useful when you need to manipulate a filehandle opened at the APR side, while using Perl.
Normally you won't call open() with APR layer attribute, but some
mod_perl functions will return a filehandle which is internally hooked
to APR. But you can use APR Perl IO directly if you want.
Not every Perl will have full APR::PerlIO functionality available.
Before using the Perl IO APR layer one has to check whether it's supported by the used APR/Perl build. Perl 5.8.x or higher with perlio enabled is required. You can check whether your Perl fits the bill by running:
% perl -V:useperlio useperlio='define';
It should say define.
If you need to do the checking in the code, there is a special
constant provided by APR::PerlIO, which can be used as follows:
use APR::PerlIO ();
die "This Perl build doesn't support PerlIO layers"
unless APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLED;
Notice that loading APR::PerlIO won't fail when Perl IO layers
aren't available since APR::PerlIO provides functionality for Perl
builds not supporting Perl IO layers.
APR::PerlIO::PERLIO_LAYERS_ARE_ENABLEDSee Prerequisites.
Most of the API is as in normal perl IO with a few nuances listed in the following sections.
META: need to rework the exception mechanism here. Current success in
using errno ($!) being set (e.g. on open()) is purely accidental and
not guaranteed across all platforms and functions. So don't rely on
$!. Will use APR::Error|docs::2.0::api::APR::Error for that
purpose.
openOpen a file via APR Perl IO layer.
open my $fh, ">:APR", $filename, $r->pool or die $!;
$fh ( GLOB filehandle )
The filehandle.
$mode ( string )
The mode to open the file, constructed from two sections separated by
the : character: the first section is the mode to open the file
under (>, <, etc) and the second section must be a string
APR. For more information refer to the open entry in the
perlfunc manpage.
$filename ( string )
The path to the filename to open
$p ( APR::Pool|docs::2.0::api::APR::Pool )
The pool object to use to allocate APR::PerlIO layer.
success or failure value (boolean).
seekSets $fh's position, just like the seek() Perl call:
seek($fh, $offset, $whence);
If $offset is zero, seek() works normally.
However if $offset is non-zero and Perl has been compiled with with
large files support (-Duselargefiles), whereas APR wasn't, this
function will croak. This is because largefile size Off_t simply
cannot fit into a non-largefile size apr_off_t.
To solve the problem, rebuild Perl with -Uuselargefiles. Currently
there is no way to force APR to build with large files support.
The C API provides functions to convert between Perl IO and APR Perl IO filehandles.
META: document these
mod_perl 2.0 documentation. The perliol(1), perlapio(1) and perl(1) manpages.
mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.