Source: liblinux-fd-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Christopher Hoskin Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libmodule-build-perl, perl-xs-dev, perl:native Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/liblinux-fd-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/liblinux-fd-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Linux-FD Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: liblinux-fd-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Linux specific special filehandles Linux::FD provides you Linux specific special file handles. These are . * Event filehandles * Signal filehandles * Timer filehandles . These allow you to use conventional polling mechanisms to wait a large variety of events.