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# vim: syntax=pod
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If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
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see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
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specifically designed to be readable as is.
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=head1 NAME
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perlopenbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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This document describes various features of OpenBSD that will affect how Perl
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version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
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=head2 OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with ithreads
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When Perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls
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in preference to non-re-entrant versions. There is an incompatibility in
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OpenBSD's C<getprotobyname_r> and C<getservbyname_r> functions in versions 3.7
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and later that will cause a SEGV when called without doing a C<bzero> on
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their return structs prior to calling these functions. Current Perls
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should handle this problem correctly. Older threaded Perls (5.8.6 or earlier)
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will run into this problem. If you want to run a threaded Perl on OpenBSD
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3.7 or higher, you will need to upgrade to at least Perl 5.8.7.
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=head1 AUTHOR
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Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
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Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to
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L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
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