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author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2016-07-15 14:46:08 +0300 |
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committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2016-07-15 14:57:40 +0300 |
commit | 44ca2b760b393e993b2a42fc489fa170910ad810 (patch) | |
tree | 12aa7390b19bed8aba2535cedb04376c45f820a5 /doc | |
parent | 5580c3248794803a8e45dd58b45933a32637954d (diff) | |
download | gdbm-44ca2b760b393e993b2a42fc489fa170910ad810.tar.gz gdbm-44ca2b760b393e993b2a42fc489fa170910ad810.tar.bz2 |
gdbm_open adjusts requested block size to accomodate integer number of directory offsets.
* src/gdbm.h.in (GDBM_BSEXACT): New flag.
* src/gdbmopen.c (compute_directory_size): New function.
(gdbm_open): When creating new database, adjust the requested
block size so that the block holds integer number of directory
indices. Disable this behavior if GDBM_BSEXACT flag is set
(this reverts to old behavior). Always unset GDBM_BSEXACT if
using block size returned by stat(2). This makes sure gdbm_open
succeeds on file systems reporting block sizes not divisible by
512.
* src/gdbmconst.h (GDBM_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE): New constant.
* src/gdbmimp.c (gdbm_import_from_file): Use GDBM_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE
instead of the hardcoded value.
* NEWS: Document GDBM_BSEXACT.
* doc/gdbm.texi: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/gdbm.texi | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gdbm.texi b/doc/gdbm.texi index d172ad7..8096215 100644 --- a/doc/gdbm.texi +++ b/doc/gdbm.texi @@ -255,15 +255,20 @@ The arguments are: The name of the file (the complete name, @code{gdbm} does not append any characters to this name). @item block_size It is used during initialization to determine the size of various constructs. It is the size of a single transfer from disk to memory. This parameter is ignored if the file has been previously -initialized. The minimum size is 512. If the value is less than 512, -the file system block size is used, otherwise the value of -@var{block_size} is used. +initialized. If the value is less than 512, the file system block +size is used instead. The size is adjusted so that the block can hold +exact number of directory entries, so that the effective block size +can be slightly greater than requested. However, if the +@samp{GDBM_BSEXACT} flag is set and the size needs to be adjusted, the +function will return with error status, setting the @samp{gdbm_errno} +variable to @samp{GDBM_BLOCK_SIZE_ERROR}. + @item flags @kwindex GDBM_READER @kwindex GDBM_WRITER @kwindex GDBM_WRCREAT @kwindex GDBM_NEWDB If @code{flags} is set to @samp{GDBM_READER}, the user wants to just read the @@ -284,12 +289,18 @@ The following may also be logically or'd into the database flags: @samp{GDBM_SYNC}, which causes all database operations to be synchronized to the disk, @samp{GDBM_NOLOCK}, which prevents the library from performing any locking on the database file, and @samp{GDBM_NOMMAP}, which disables the memory mapping mechanism. The option @samp{GDBM_FAST} is now obsolete, since @code{gdbm} defaults to no-sync mode. +@kwindex GDBM_BSEXACT +If this flag is set and the requested @var{block_size} cannot be used +without adjustment, @code{gdbm_open} will refuse to create the +databases. In this case it will set the @samp{gdbm_errno} +variable to @samp{GDBM_BLOCK_SIZE_ERROR} and return @samp{NULL}. + @kwindex GDBM_CLOEXEC @cindex close-on-exec If the host @samp{open} call @ifhtml (@uref{http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/open, open(2)}) @end ifhtml @@ -1230,15 +1241,17 @@ No error occurred. @kwindex GDBM_MALLOC_ERROR @item GDBM_MALLOC_ERROR Memory allocation failed. Not enough memory. @kwindex GDBM_BLOCK_SIZE_ERROR +@kwindex GDBM_BSEXACT @item GDBM_BLOCK_SIZE_ERROR This error is set by the @code{gdbm_open} function (@pxref{Open}), if -the value of its @var{block_size} argument is incorrect. +the value of its @var{block_size} argument is incorrect and the +@samp{GDBM_BSEXACT} flag is set. @kwindex GDBM_FILE_OPEN_ERROR @item GDBM_FILE_OPEN_ERROR The library was not able to open a disk file. This can be set by @code{gdbm_open} (@pxref{Open}), @code{gdbm_export} and @code{gdbm_import} functions (@pxref{Flat files}). |