README.openbsd(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 incompata-
       bility 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 func-
       tions.  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.

perl v5.8.8                       2006-06-14                    PERLOPENBSD(1)