On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:19:09PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
> ldbm - uses neutral storage interface which could wrap Berkeley DB
> (www.sleepycat.com)
> or GNU DBM (www.gnu.org). Only sleepycat is considered
> reliable, though.
I've found gdbm very reliable but it has a few limitations.
The most severe is that you can only have one process holding the
datase open at a time, that really limits what you can do with it.
Actually, I think you can have multiple processes reading the database
but only one can write or something like that.
Also, I don't think gdbm has any sorting facilities, if it has then
I haven't used that part of it.
There's also "tdb" which also does not support sorting but does
at least allow multiple processes to read and write the database
simultaneously. Samba uses it and sometimes pppd does too.
- Tel
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