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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-09-27 04:08:56 +0300 |
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| committer | hv <hv@crypt.org> | 2002-10-02 15:04:57 +0000 |
| commit | af685957336d0a37645ff959496386c489e0b52a (patch) | |
| tree | 0bf174a4e022dbc1a9ff2cb2ba7ebbd5d8ae436b /INSTALL | |
| parent | 77b096b5f2a0becf5ed578f9a5dea854fda8c05b (diff) | |
| download | perl-af685957336d0a37645ff959496386c489e0b52a.tar.gz | |
reentrant buffers
Message-ID: <20020926220856.GA339120@lyta.hut.fi>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17967
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@@ -712,6 +712,14 @@ 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). +When building threaded for certain library calls like the getgr*() and +the getpw*() there is a dynamically sized result buffer: the buffer +starts small but Perl will keep growing the buffer until the result fits. +To get a fixed upper limit you will have to recompile Perl with +PERL_REENTRANT_MAXSIZE defined to be the number of bytes you want. +One way to do this is to run Configure with +C<-Accflags=-DPERL_REENTRANT_MAXSIZE=65536> + =head2 Large file support. Since Perl 5.6.0, Perl has supported large files (files larger than |