According to Tom Vijlbrief ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >The cool thing with this is that you'd be able to quit your plex86 session,
> >restart it with the same database, and have the data you altered in your
> >first session ready for use. This would be _very_ cool.
>
> Perhaps, but this feature was already implemented
> (the persistant cache file option).
Sorry, wasn't paying attention again.
> The advantage of dbopen() is that it is an available C-only
> implementation
> (which allows the current code to be rewritten in C)
> and you get the persistance "for free". On the negative side,
> it is Unix specific, and I'm not sure how portable it is over
> Unix dialects, and if portability over Non GNU platforms is
> desired. I assume the *bsd's have a non gnu implementation.
My OpenBSD 2.8 box at home does have dbopen(). I don't think it's GNU, but
I could easily test the stuff you write for compatibility with it.
The Berkerly DB engine is quite portable. It's the database engine used in,
for example, Mozilla.
Wouter
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