I realize that by definition the Category is limited to four bits OR a total of 16 categories per database. My mistake was creating a category number 0x10. I didn't catch my mistake during the Palm code development because I never got an error, and it always worked. To my supprise the "secret bit" has been being used by the Data Manager as the most significant bit for the category 0x10.
This will not matter to my app and so I don't immediately consider this a bug, but I'm concerned that my code is violating an important assumption and will cause me problems later. Any ideas on this?
If the user locks his or her handheld and forgets the password, as part of the process to reset the password, any records in DBs that are marked secret will be deleted. So, your app could have its databases corrupted if records are marked secret by mistake.
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