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NAME
   IO::Dir::Dirfd - Perl extension to extract the file descriptor from a
   dirhandle

SYNOPSIS
     use IO::Dir::Dirfd;

     opendir D, "." or die $!;
     my $fd = dirfd(D);

     use IO::Dir::Dirfd qw(fileno);

     opendir D, "." or die $!;
     my $fd = fileno(D);

DESCRIPTION
   The IO::Dir::Dirfd module provides the possibility to extract the file
   descriptor from a directory handle on platforms where this functionality
   is available.

   It exports a single sub, dirfd(), by default. If you specify that you
   want to export fileno(), the core fileno() will be overrided. After this
   you can use fileno() for both file- and dirhandles.

BUGS
   As of now, the module was only tested on FreeBSD 4.4 and FreeBSD 5.0;
   there's no garantee it will work as advertised elsewehere (or even on
   FreeBSD, for that matter).

   It is possible that the fileno(HANDLE) form will not work under all
   circumstances. Use fileno(*HANDLE) instead if in doubt.

AUTHOR
   Anton Berezin, [email protected]

SEE ALSO
   dirfd(3).

$Id: README,v 1.1 2001/11/21 18:16:40 tobez Exp $

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