Task

- Perl interface to Tasks

Synopsis

use Sun::Solaris::Task qw(:ALL);
my $taskid = gettaskid();

Description

This module provides wrappers for the gettaskid(2) and settaskid(2) system calls.

Constants

TASK_NORMAL, TASK_FINAL.

Functions

settaskid($project, $flags)

The $project parameter must be a valid project ID and the $flags parameter must be TASK_NORMAL or TASK_FINAL. The parameters are passed through directly to the underlying settaskid() system call. The new task ID is returned if the call succeeds. On failure -1 is returned.

gettaskid()

This function returns the numeric task ID of the calling process, or undef if the underlying gettaskid() system call is unsuccessful.

Class methods

None.

Object methods

None.

Exports

By default nothing is exported from this module. The following tags can be used to selectively import constants and functions defined in this module:

:SYSCALLS

settaskid() and gettaskid()

:CONSTANTS

TASK_NORMAL and TASK_FINAL

:ALL

:SYSCALLS and :CONSTANTS

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

gettaskid(2), settaskid(2), attributes(5)