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- If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
- see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
- specifically designed to be readable as is.
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- README.openbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This document describes various features of OpenBSD that will affect how Perl
- version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
-
- =head2 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 versions. There is an incompatability in
- OpenBSD's C<getprotobyname_r> and C<getservbyname_r> function in versions 3.7
- and later that will cause a SEGV when called without doing a C<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.
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
-
- Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>.
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