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author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2011-08-06 09:26:55 +0000 |
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committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2011-08-06 09:26:55 +0000 |
commit | 33d33a19f0694b1e3eca1d3d32c62baf803fac0d (patch) | |
tree | ca61a7f44eb331a33f8aca5dd76d67704d1575c2 /NEWS | |
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-07-27 +GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-08-06 Copyright (C) 1990-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. @@ -7,6 +7,30 @@ Please send mailutils bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>. Version 1.9 * Use mmap if available. + +* Changes in compatibility mode + +The changes below fix several long-standing bugs in +ndbm compatibility code, which made it impossible to +use GDBM with Sendmail and Postfix. Now that they are +fixed, GDBM can be used with these MTAs. + +** Locking is disabled. + +This was reported, in particular, in +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663932 + +** Do not link pag to dir. + +Instead of linking pag to dir as previous versions did, GDBM now +creates a separate dir file. Consequently, dbm_pagfno and +dbm_dirfno return different file descriptors. + +When opening an existing database as a writer, GDBM determines +if dir is linked to pag, and if so breaks the link and creates +a new dir file. When such a database is opened in a read-only +mode, GDBM does not attemt to alter the link. + * A testsuite is provided. * Improve documentation. |