read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH Attempts to read LENGTH characters

tell FILEHANDLE tell Returns the current position in bytes for FILEHANDLE, or -1 on error. FILEHANDLE

exec LIST exec PROGRAM LIST The

getpgrp PID Returns the current process group for the specified PID. Use a PID of 0 to

time Returns the number of non-leap seconds since whatever time the system considers to be the epoch, suitable for feeding to

msgctl ID,CMD,ARG Calls the System V IPC function msgctl(2). You'll probably have to say

shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE

chown LIST Changes the owner (and group) of a list of files. The first two elements of the list must be the numeric uid and gid, in

break Break out of a given() block. This

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