1If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you 2see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is 3specifically designed to be readable as is. 4 5=head1 NAME 6 7perlopenbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems 8 9=head1 DESCRIPTION 10 11This document describes various features of OpenBSD that will affect how Perl 12version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. 13 14=head2 OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with ithreads 15 16When Perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls 17in preference to non-re-entrant versions. There is an incompatibility in 18OpenBSD's C<getprotobyname_r> and C<getservbyname_r> function in versions 3.7 19and later that will cause a SEGV when called without doing a C<bzero> on 20their return structs prior to calling these functions. Current Perl's 21should handle this problem correctly. Older threaded Perls (5.8.6 or earlier) 22will run into this problem. If you want to run a threaded Perl on OpenBSD 233.7 or higher, you will need to upgrade to at least Perl 5.8.7. 24 25=head1 AUTHOR 26 27Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> 28 29Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to 30L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. 31 32