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FreeBSD 4.10 from October:

Last night, I ran the following command during a moment of high load:
   truss perl -V
and received a screenful of the following message:
   PIOCWAIT top of loop: Operation not permitted
Does that mean that perl was stuck in a wait state, or truss?