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-If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
-see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
-specifically designed to be readable as is.
-
-=head1 NAME
-
-perlfreebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems
-
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
-This document describes various features of FreeBSD that will affect how Perl
-version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
-
-=head2 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
-C<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.
-
-=head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD
-
-perl sets C<$^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
-C<sysctl> with C<KERN_PROC_PATHNAME> if that is supported, else by reading
-the symlink F</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 C<$^X>.
-
-=head1 AUTHOR
-
-Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic
-and Tim Bunce.
-
-Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>.
-