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NAME

6       perlopenbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems
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DESCRIPTION

9       This document describes various features of OpenBSD that will affect
10       how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
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12   OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with ithreads
13       When Perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library
14       calls in preference to non-re-entrant versions.  There is an
15       incompatibility in OpenBSD's "getprotobyname_r" and "getservbyname_r"
16       function in versions 3.7 and later that will cause a SEGV when called
17       without doing a "bzero" on their return structs prior to calling these
18       functions.  Current Perl's should handle this problem correctly.  Older
19       threaded Perls (5.8.6 or earlier) will run into this problem.  If you
20       want to run a threaded Perl on OpenBSD 3.7 or higher, you will need to
21       upgrade to at least Perl 5.8.7.
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AUTHOR

24       Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
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26       Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to
27       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
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