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- Only a subset of the standard Perl 5 Kit has been implemented, as there is
- usually no direct equivalent of the functionality in Windows NT.
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- Any functions marked with '**' will NOT warn that they are not implemented.
- Providing this 'warn facility' would require changes to the Perl 5 UNIX Distribution.
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- Following are the unsupported functions:
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- Unsupported network routines
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- getnetbyname()
- getnetbyaddr()
- getnetent()
- getprotoent()
- getservent()
- sethostent()
- setnetent()
- setprotoent()
- setservent()
- endhostent()
- endnetent()
- endprotoent()
- endservent()
- socketpair()
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- Unsupported System V compatible IPC routines
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- msgctl()
- msgget()
- msgrcv()
- msgsnd()
- semctl()
- semget()
- semop()
- shmctl()
- shmget()
- shmread()
- shmwrite()
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- Unsupported I/O routines
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- ioctl()**
- select($w, $x, $y, $z)**
- -- The single argument version of select HAS been implemented.
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- Unsupported filesystem routines
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- chmod()**
- chroot()
- fcntl()**
- flock() <- works as of Release 100 beta 4.
- link()
- lstat()**
- readlink()**
- symlink()
- sysread()**
- syswrite()**
- umask()**
- utime()**
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- Unsupported security-related routines
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- crypt()
- getlogin()**
- getpgrp()
- getppid()
- getpriority()
- getpwnam()
- getgrnam()
- getpwuid()
- getgrgid()
- getpwent()
- getgrent()
- setpwent()
- setgrent()
- endpwent()
- endgrent()
- setpgrp()
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- Unsupported process-related routines
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- fork()
- kill()
- pipe() <- works as of Release 100 beta 3.
- setpriority()
- times()
- wait()
- waitpid()
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- Unsupported miscellaneous routines
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- alarm()
- dbmclose()**
- dbmopen()**
- dump()**
- syscall()
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