Sys::Filesystem::Unix(3)

NAME
Sys::Filesystem::Unix - Return generic Unix filesystem information to Sys::Filesystem

SYNOPSIS
See Sys::Filesystem.

INHERITANCE
  Sys::Filesystem::Unix
  ISA UNIVERSAL

METHODS

version()
    Return the version of the (sub)module.

readFsTab
    This method provides the capability to parse a standard unix fstab file.

    It expects following arguments:

    fstabPath
        Full qualified path to the fstab file to read.

    fstabKeys
        The column names for the fstab file through an array reference.

    special_fs
        Hash reference containing the names of all special file systems having a true value as key.

    This method return true in case the specified file could be opened for reading, false otherwise.

readMntTab
    This method provides the capability to read abd parse a standard unix mount-tab file. The file is locked using flock after opening it.

    It expects following arguments:

    mnttabPath
        Full qualified path to the mnttab file to read.

    mnttabKeys
        The column names for the mnttab file through an array reference.

    $special_fs
        Hash reference containing the names of all special file systems having a true value as key.

    This method return true in case the specified file could be opened for reading and locked, false otherwise.

readMounts
    This method is called to parse the information got from "mount" system command. It expects following arguments:

    mount_rx
        Regular expression to extract the information from each mount line.

    pridx
        Array reference containing the index for primary keys of interest in match in following order: device, mount_point, type.

    keys
        Array reference of the columns of the match - in order of paranteses in regular expression.

    special
        Array reference containing the names of the special file system types.

    lines
        Array containing the lines to parse.

readSwap
    This method is called to parse the information from the swap status. It expects following arguments:

    swap_rx
        Regular expression to extract the information from each swap status line. This regular expression should have exact one pair of parantheses to identify the swap device.

    lines
        Array containing the lines to parse.

AUTHOR
Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org> - <http://perlgirl.org.uk>

Jens Rehsack <rehsack@cpan.org> - <http://www.rehsack.de/>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004,2005,2006 Nicola Worthington.

Copyright 2008-2020 Jens Rehsack.

This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>