32.14. Errno
use Errno;
unless (open(FH, $pathname)) {
if ($!{ENOENT}) { # We don't need an import for this!
warn "$pathname does not exist\n";
}
else {
warn "open failed on `$pathname': $!";
}
}
use Errno qw(EINTR EIO :POSIX);
if ($! == ENOENT) { .... }
The
Errno module makes available the symbolic names
for the error status values set when a syscall fails, but does not
export them by default. The module has a single export tag,
"
:POSIX", which exports only those symbols defined
by the POSIX 1003.1 standard. The module also makes the global
%! variable magical using
tie.
You can subscript into the
%! hash using any valid
errno on your system, not just the POSIX ones, and its value is true
only if that's the current error.