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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-08 21:00:18 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-08 21:00:18 +0000
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@@ -730,18 +730,6 @@ If you decide to use ithreads, the 'threads' module allows their use,
and the 'Thread' module offers an interface to both 5005threads and
ithreads (whichever has been configured).
-For IRIX 6.2, you have to have the following patches installed:
-
- 1404 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b man pages
- 1645 IRIX 6.2 & 6.3 POSIX header file updates
- 2000 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b support modules
- 2254 Pthread library fixes
- 2401 6.2 all platform kernel rollup
-
-IMPORTANT: Without patch 2401, a kernel bug in IRIX 6.2 will cause
-your machine to panic and crash when running threaded perl. IRIX 6.3
-and later are okay.
-
=head2 Large file support.
Since Perl 5.6.0, Perl has supported large files (files larger than