$ cat devel/p5-forks/pkg/DESCR The "forks" pragma allows a developer to use threads without having to have a threaded perl, or to even run 5.8.0 or higher.
Refer to the threads module for ithreads API documentation.
$ cat devel/p5-Sys-SigAction/pkg/DESCR
Sys::SigAction provides an easy mechanism for the user to recover the
pre-5.8.0 behavior for signal handling. This module wraps up the
POSIX:: routines and objects necessary to call sigaction() in a way
that is as efficient from a coding perspective as just setting a
localized $SIG{SIGNAL} with a code reference. Further, the user has
control over the sa_flags passed to sigaction(). By default, if no
additional args are passed to sigaction(), then the signal handler
will be called when a signal (such as SIGALRM) is delivered.
$ cat devel/p5-Acme-Damn/pkg/DESCR
Acme::Damn provides a single routine, damn(), which takes a blessed
reference (a Perl object), and unblesses it, to return the original
reference. I can't think of any reason why you might want to do this,
but just because it's of no use doesn't mean that you shouldn't be
able to do it.
Forks is currently API compatible with CPAN threads version 1.53
(current perl threads module is 1.67). All modules pass regress
(p5-forks regress takes a while to complete). Tested on i386.
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