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perlopenbsd (1)

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perlopenbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems

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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
     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.



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     +---------------+------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Availability   | runtime/perl-512 |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
     +---------------+------------------+
NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from
     http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.






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