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If you're ever dealing with C Binary API's from Perl Code, via the syscall, ioctl, or fcntl functions, you need to know how to construct memory in a C Compatible way. For instance, if you were ever dealing with some function that expected a timespec, you'd look into /usr/include/time.h and find: s...

Sometimes you have to deal with structures defined in terms of C data types from Perl. One such application is the creation of raw network packets, in case you want to do something fancier than what the regular socket API has to offer. This is just what pack() (and unpack() of course) is there for. ...