From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:54:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the lib/io_multihomed test hang in 64-bit HP-Ux.
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Document the lib/io_multihomed test hang in 64-bit HP-Ux.

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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 680bcb7..7991b1f 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2663,6 +2663,14 @@ known as Open Edition MVS) and VM-ESA were supported.  Due to changes
 required by the UTF-8 (Unicode) support, the EBCDIC platforms are not
 supported in Perl 5.6.0.
 
+=head2 In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
+
+The lib/io_multihomed test may hang in HP-UX if Perl has been
+configured to be 64-bit.  Because other 64-bit platforms do not
+hang in this test, HP-UX is suspect.  All other tests pass
+in 64-bit HP-UX.  The test attempts to create and connect to
+"multihomed" sockets (sockets which have multiple IP addresses).
+
 =head2 NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
 
 In NEXTSTEP 3.3p2 the implementation of the strftime(3) in the