PERLOPENBSD(1)		Perl Programmers Reference Guide	  PERLOPENBSD(1)

NAME
     perlopenbsd - 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 incompatibil-
     ity in OpenBSD's "getprotobyname_r" and "getservbyname_r" functions in ver-
     sions 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
     Perls 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
     <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.

perl v5.44.0			   2026-06-22			  PERLOPENBSD(1)