Bug#776446: ITP: liblinux-fd-perl -- Linux specific special filehandles

[Christopher Hoskin <christopher.hoskin@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Christopher Hoskin <christopher.hoskin@gmail.com>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : liblinux-fd-perl
  Version         : 0.011
  Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Linux-FD
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  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.