perlfreebsd(1)


NAME

   perlfreebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems

DESCRIPTION

   This document describes various features of FreeBSD that will affect
   how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.

   FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_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 a bug in
   FreeBSD's "readdir_r" function in versions 4.5 and earlier that can
   cause a SEGV when reading large directories. A patch for FreeBSD libc
   is available (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/30631
   ) which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6.

   $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD
   perl sets $^X where possible to a full path by asking the operating
   system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by
   using "sysctl" with "KERN_PROC_PATHNAME" if that is supported, else by
   reading the symlink /proc/curproc/file. FreeBSD 7 and earlier has a bug
   where either approach sometimes returns an incorrect value (see
   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ).  In these cases
   perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's argv[0] value for
   $^X.

AUTHOR

   Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven
   Rezic and Tim Bunce.

   Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org.





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