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 that can cause a SEGV when reading large directories.
-A patch is available
+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 )
-and will hopefully be integrated into FreeBSD 4.6.
+which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6.
=head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD
In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's
argv[0] value for C<$^X>.
-=head2 Perl will no more be part of "base FreeBSD"
+=head2 Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD"
-Not as bad as it sounds--what is means is that Perl will no more be
+Not as bad as it sounds--what this means is that Perl will no longer be
part of the B<kernel build system> of FreeBSD. Perl will still very
probably be part of the "default install", and in any case the latest
version will be in the ports system. The first FreeBSD version this