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 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 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 <steveATfisharerojo.org>

       Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbugATperl.org.



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-07                                             PERLOPENBSD(1)