> Does anybody know of any common application or standards specification > that might argue in favor of keeping these functions? (The latter is > important, since otherwise someone will have to come up with > specification definitions for all of them.)
None hit my right off. Everything I have appears to be using db1, or db3. The only typical user of ndbm has been sendmail because sendmail people recommend it as its faster than db1 or gdbm. And sendmail happily supports all sorts of db species He is a dump of db stuff on the RH box Im typing on [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX2.2]# rpm -q --requires gdbm /sbin/ldconfig rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX2.2]# rpm -q --requires db1 /sbin/ldconfig rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libdb.so.2 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX2.2]# rpm -q --requires db3 /sbin/ldconfig rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libdb-3.1.so libnss_files.so.2 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) libnss_files.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
