NAME

       Perl::osnames - List possible $^O ($OSNAME) values, with description

VERSION

       This document describes version 0.11 of Perl::osnames (from Perl distribution Perl-osnames), released on
       2014-12-19.

DESCRIPTION

       This package contains $data which lists possible values of $^O along with description for each. It also
       provides some helper functions.

   Tags
       •   unix

           Unix-like operating systems. This currently excludes beos/haiku.

       •   bsd

           BSD-derived Unix operating systems.

       •   sysv

           SysV-derived Unix operating systems.

       •   posix

           For   POSIX-compliant   OSes,   including   fully-,  mostly-,  and  largely-compliant  ones  (source:
           <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX>).

           From what I can gather, dec_osf is not POSIX compliant, although there is a posix package for it.

VARIABLES

       None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

   $data
       An arrayref of records (arrayrefs), each structured as:

        [$name, \@tags, $description]

FUNCTIONS

       None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

   is_posix([ $os ]) => bool
       Check whether $os (defaults to $^O if not specified) is POSIX (checked by the existence of "posix" tag on
       the OS's record in $data). Will return 0, 1, or undef if $os is unknown.

   is_unix([ $os ]) => bool
       Check whether $os (defaults to $^O if not specified) is Unix (checked by the existence of "unix"  tag  on
       the OS's record in $data). Will return 0, 1, or undef if $os is unknown.

SEE ALSO

       perlvar

       Config

       Perl::OSType,  a  core  module.  You  should  probably use this module instead.  Currently the difference
       between this module and Perl::osnames: 1) Perl::osnames currently doesn't list beos/haiku  as  Unix,  but
       POSIX; 2) Perl::osnames provides more tags (like sysv, bsd, posix) and description.

       Devel::Platform::Info

       The output of "perl -V"

       App::osnames,  the  original  reason for Perl::osnames. With this CLI tool you can grep OS names by name,
       tag, or description, e.g. "osnames solaris" or "osnames posix".

HOMEPAGE

       Please visit the project's homepage at <https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-osnames>.

SOURCE

       Source repository is at <https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Perl-osnames>.

BUGS

       Please    report    any    bugs     or     feature     requests     on     the     bugtracker     website
       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Perl-osnames>

       When  submitting  a  bug  or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that
       illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

       perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2014 by perlancar@cpan.org.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  the  Perl  5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.22.2                                       2016-06-18                                 Perl::osnames(3pm)