msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS Calls the System V IPC function msgrcv to receive a message from message queue ID into variable VAR with a maximum
while These flow-control keywords are documented in Compound
waitpid PID,FLAGS Waits for a particular child process to terminate and returns the pid of the deceased process, or
when These flow-control keywords related to the experimental switch feature are documented in
wait Behaves like wait(2) on your system: it waits for a child process to terminate and returns the pid of the deceased process, or
qw/STRING/
substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH substr EXPR,OFFSET
reset EXPR reset Generally used in a
import LIST There is no builtin import function
connect SOCKET,NAME Attempts to connect to a remote socket, just like connect(2). Returns true if it succeeded, false otherwise. NAME should
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