Many of them are already in the ecosystem as part of lizmat's Buttefly project of porting Perl 5 CPAN modules to Perl 6. That If I remember correctly, the ones you mention are one of the few that are missing, but you can find most of them here: https://modules.perl6.org/search/?q=p5
Cheers El mar., 14 ago. 2018 a las 22:56, Mark Devine (<m...@markdevine.com>) escribió: > Perl6 Users, > > > > The POSIX module in the ecosystem (https://github.com/cspencer/perl6-posix) > implements a few commonly used subs from POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1 in a single > file, which I found useful. I wanted to use more of these so I coded a few > simple subroutines with NativeCall for my own use. The more I look at it, > I will likely want to use a lot more of these functions/headers in Perl6 > over the long term. > > > > Perl5 had a few of these subroutines included with the core distribution, > as well as a utility to extract header info. Perl6 doesn’t include POSIX > IEEE Std 1003.1 in the core distro that I could see. > > > > I am not a developer, otherwise I’d author Perl6 POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1 > modules for the ecosystem. getaddrinfo/freeaddrinfo ( > https://docs.perl6.org/language/nativecall#Short_tutorial_on_calling_a_C_function) > clearly demonstrated to me that I was out of my depth, but some Perl6 > developers seem to be fluent with these NativeCall constructs without > breaking a sweat. > > > > Are there any initiatives to include POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1 in Perl6, > hopefully holistically? Maybe with an extensible hierarchical file > structure (I.e. POSIX::getaddrinfo, POSIX::getnameinfo, etc.)? Are there > other Perl6 users who see a need for more POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1 functions ( > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/functions.html)? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > > > -- JJ
