This document describes various features of FreeBSD that will affect how Perl
version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
-=head2 core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads
+=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
(see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/30631 )
and will hopefully be integrated into FreeBSD 4.6.
-=head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path
+=head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD
perl 5.8.0 sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating
system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by reading