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-rw-r--r--INSTALL12
-rw-r--r--MANIFEST2
-rw-r--r--ext/Thread/README.threads (renamed from README.threads)0
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f5c2f2fd85..01a7e79dac 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -727,6 +727,18 @@ 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
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index efb5c202db..c4d357558a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ ext/Thread/Makefile.PL Thread extension makefile writer
ext/Thread/Notes Thread notes
ext/Thread/queue.tx Test Thread::Queue module
ext/Thread/README Thread README
+ext/Thread/README.threads Notes about multithreading
ext/Thread/specific.tx Test thread-specific user data
ext/Thread/sync.tx Test thread synchronisation
ext/Thread/sync2.tx Test thread synchronisation
@@ -2260,7 +2261,6 @@ README.os390 Notes about OS/390 (nee MVS) port
README.plan9 Notes about Plan9 port
README.qnx Notes about QNX port
README.solaris Notes about Solaris port
-README.threads Notes about multithreading
README.tru64 Notes about Tru64
README.tw About using Perl and Traditional Chinese
README.uts Notes about UTS
diff --git a/README.threads b/ext/Thread/README.threads
index 9cd0dbcb20..9cd0dbcb20 100644
--- a/README.threads
+++ b/ext/Thread/README.threads