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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2018-05-24 11:35:24 +0300
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2018-05-24 11:35:24 +0300
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More error checking; improve gdbm_recover
* Makefile.am (set-dist-date): New rule (dist-hook): Catch FIXMEs in NEWS. * NEWS: Updated. * src/findkey.c (gdbm_bucket_element_valid_p): New function. (_gdbm_read_entry): Validate the retrieved bucket element. * src/gdbm.h.in (gdbm_recovery): New member: duplicate_keys. (GDBM_BAD_HASH_TABLE): New error code. * src/gdbmdefs.h (TYPE_WIDTH,SIGNED_TYPE_MAXIMUM) (OFF_T_MAX): New defines. (off_t_sum_ok): New function. (gdbm_bucket_element_valid_p): New prototype. * src/gdbmerrno.c: Support for GDBM_BAD_HASH_TABLE code. * src/gdbmtool.c (recover_handler): Fix argument counting. New argument 'summary' prints statistics summary at the end of the run. (export_handler,import_handler): Fix argument counting. * src/mmap.c (SUM_FILE_SIZE): Rewrite as inlined function. Add error checking. (_gdbm_mapped_remap): More error checking. * src/recover.c (run_recovery): Don't bail out on GDBM_CANNOT_REPLACE. (gdbm_recover): Initialize duplicate_keys * src/systems.h: Include limits.h
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-GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2018-05-19
+GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2018-05-24
Copyright (C) 1990-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of file for copying conditions.
Please send gdbm bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>.
Version 1.14.90
+FIXME: BUMP VI_MAJOR
+
* Implement database consistency checks
* Improved error checking
* Removed gdbm-1.8.3 compatibility layer
+* Commands can be given to gdbmtool in the command line
+
+The syntax is:
+
+ gdbmtool DBNAME COMMAND [ARGS...]
+
+Multiple commands are separated by semicolon (take care to escape it),
+e.g.:
+
+ gdbmtool t.db count\; avail
+
+* Fixed data conversion bugs in storing structured keys or content
+
+* New member in the gdbm_recovery structure: duplicate_keys.
+
+Upon return from gdbm_recover, this member holds the number of keys
+that were not recovered, because the same key has already been stored
+in the database. The actual number of stored keys is thus
+recovered_keys - duplicate_keys.
+
+* New error codes.
+
+ GDBM_BAD_BUCKET "Malformed bucket header"
+ GDBM_BAD_HEADER "Malformed database file header"
+ GDBM_BAD_AVAIL "Malformed avail_block"
+ GDBM_BAD_HASH_TABLE "Malformed hash table"
+
Version 1.14.1 - 2018-01-03
* Increment soname current version number.

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