Perl::...refork(3pm)

πŸ’– NAME πŸ’–

ok so bestie, this page is all about Perl::PrereqScanner::NotQuiteLite::Parser::Prefork β€” yeah that's a whole mouthful, it's giving very-long-package-name energy and we respect it 🫢

It lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's a 3pm page, iykyk ✨


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so real talk, this parser has exactly one job and she does it flawlessly πŸ’…

This parser exists to deal with modules that get loaded by prefork. That's it. That's the whole plot. Not me describing an entire parser in one sentence and then dipping 😭


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

The mastermind behind this absolute icon:

  • Kenichi Ishigaki, <ishigaki@cpan.org>

give her a round of applause, she ate πŸ’–βœ¨


This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kenichi Ishigaki. periodt.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so like, go forth and remix, bestie, legally 🌈


ngl, this one's a short read compared to some of the absolute novels in the manual, and honestly? iconic behavior. sometimes less is more πŸŽ€

and that's a wrap on perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-04-21 β€” thanks for reading my little manpage moment, mwah πŸ’œ

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from