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NAME

6       README.openbsd - 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
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15       When Perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library
16       calls in preference to non-re-entrant versions.  There is an incompata‐
17       bility in OpenBSD's "getprotobyname_r" and "getservbyname_r" function
18       in versions 3.7 and later that will cause a SEGV when called without
19       doing a "bzero" on their return structs prior to calling these func‐
20       tions.  Current Perl's should handle this problem correctly.  Older
21       threaded Perls (5.8.6 or earlier) will run into this problem.  If you
22       want to run a threaded Perl on OpenBSD 3.7 or higher, you will need to
23       upgrade to at least Perl 5.8.7.
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AUTHOR

26       Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
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28       Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org.
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