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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 versions.  There is an
  incompatability in OpenBSD's "getprotobyname_r" and "getservbyname_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.

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