Does the POSIX module in the standard Perl distribution work in Win32/64?

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Does the POSIX module in the standard Perl distribution work in Win32/64?

I was wondering whether using POSIX.pm would make my Perl code less cross platform. From reading the documentation it's not very clear how well it's supported on Win32/64 Perl implementations.

Is it wise to rely use POSIX.pm if one cares about portable code?

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The documentation says it does

dsm 2009-08-18 08:07:37

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