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| author | Steve Hay <SteveHay@planit.com> | 2004-08-06 12:55:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <SteveHay@planit.com> | 2004-08-06 12:55:31 +0000 |
| commit | 036c1c1eb70a0dfc5a7187959eb5e39d499c9396 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ec225dec9327c122e7e2efe8b22d5668441f038 /README.win32 | |
| parent | 7d54d38ea123279986bac06bc420bfdc4e2395fb (diff) | |
| download | perl-036c1c1eb70a0dfc5a7187959eb5e39d499c9396.tar.gz | |
Fix [perl #24269] socket() call uses non-IFS providers
causing subsequent print/read to hang or misbehave
Patch supplied by Artiom Morozov <artiom@phreaker.net>
in the bug report at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/index.html?q=24269
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23200
Diffstat (limited to 'README.win32')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 3688a32c8c..9d99244f17 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -739,6 +739,12 @@ in the Win32 environment. See L</"Building Extensions">. Most C<socket()> related calls are supported, but they may not behave as on Unix platforms. See L<perlport> for the full list. +Perl requires Winsock2 to be installed on the system. If you're +running Win95, you can download Winsock upgrade from here: + +http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUAdminTools/S_WUNetworkingTools/W95Sockets2/Default.asp + +Later OS versions already include Winsock2 support. Signal handling may not behave as on Unix platforms (where it doesn't exactly "behave", either :). For instance, calling C<die()> |