From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:34:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention the FreeBSD readdir_r bug in perldelta.
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Mention the FreeBSD readdir_r bug in perldelta.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17115
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index fbfed2c..f560ef9 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2971,6 +2971,11 @@ If this test fails, it indicates that your libc (C library) is not
 threadsafe.  This particular test stress tests the localtime() call to
 find out whether it is threadsafe.  See L<perlthrtut> for more information.
 
+=head2 FreeBSD built with ithreads coredumps reading large directories
+
+This is a known bug in FreeBSD's readdir_r() (see L<perlfreebsd>
+(README.freebsd)), which hopefully will be fixed in FreeBSD 4.6.
+
 =head2 FreeBSD Failing locale Test 117 For ISO8859-15 Locales
 
 The ISO8859-15 locales may fail the locale test 117 in FreeBSD.