Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
Yeah, it would have :) I was in a rush. Appologies.
Basically the important part is:
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.
The impact of this is not that we have working ihreaded mp2 on OpenBSD,
but if we did, it will require perl v 5.8.7 as a minimum.
May be it does work. All we know is that OpenBSD 2.9 doesn't work.
Hope this is clearer.
Yup, thanks Philip
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