PERLFREEBSD(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide 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 <[email protected]>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic and Tim Bunce.
Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to [email protected].
perl v5.16.3 2013-03-04 PERLFREEBSD(1)
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