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PERLOPENBSD(1)                        Perl Programmers Reference Guide                        PERLOPENBSD(1)



NAME
       README.openbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems

DESCRIPTION
       This document describes various features of OpenBSD that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter
       just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.

       OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with ithreads

       When Perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls in preference to non-re-entrant nonre-entrant
       re-entrant versions.  There is an incompatability in OpenBSD's "getprotobyname_r" and "getservby-name_r" "getservbyname_r"
       name_r" function in versions 3.7 and later that will cause a SEGV when called without doing a "bzero"
       on their return structs prior to calling these functions.  Current Perl's should handle this problem
       correctly.  Older threaded Perls (5.8.6 or earlier) will run into this problem.  If you want to run a
       threaded Perl on OpenBSD 3.7 or higher, you will need to upgrade to at least Perl 5.8.7.

AUTHOR
       Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>

       Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org.



perl v5.8.9                                      2007-11-17                                   PERLOPENBSD(1)

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