PERLOPENBSD(1) 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 ver-
sion 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 AT fisharerojo.org>
Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug AT perl.org.
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