Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> added the comment:
Akira> Note that dbm and gdbm C API is a little different. gdbm_nextkey
Akira> requires key for its argument, dbm_nextkey don't. So I had to
Akira> use for gdbm an static variable that points to the current
Akira> position.
I don't think this is going to fly. A static variable is not thread-safe.
What's worse, even in a non-threaded environment you might want to iterate
over the gdbm file simultaneously from two different places.
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