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author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2011-08-09 07:52:32 +0000 |
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committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2011-08-09 07:52:32 +0000 |
commit | 6e1560aa617003330ce33ce4d871b32af40e5e4f (patch) | |
tree | 2152b8de4aec54cb9f174c7c92d38822cec3de30 | |
parent | 3a2b3ff91066217df226956e76be377542498e30 (diff) | |
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Minor changes
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile.am | 4 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@ -GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-08-06 +GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-08-09 Copyright (C) 1990-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. -Please send mailutils bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>. +Please send gdbm bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>. -Version 1.9 +Version 1.9, 2011-08-09 -* Use mmap if available. +* Use of mmap + +To speed up I/O operations, mmap(2) is used when available. +It can be disabled at compile time using --disable-memory-mapped-io, +and at run time by giving GDBM_NOMMAP flag to gdbm_open. * Changes in compatibility mode @@ -17,7 +21,9 @@ fixed, GDBM can be used with these MTAs. ** Locking is disabled. -This was reported, in particular, in +Neither ndbm nor dbm functions lock their files. + +This bug was reported, in particular, in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663932 ** Do not link pag to dir. @@ -29,10 +35,11 @@ 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. +mode, GDBM does not attempt to alter the link. * A testsuite is provided. -* Improve documentation. + +* Improved documentation. Version 1.8.3 diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am index 59da8eb..f4059d0 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/Makefile.am @@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ check-format: check-tabs check-sentence-spacing check-docs: check-format check-fixmes untabify: - emacs -batch -l untabify.el $(info_TEXINFOS) $(cfpeek_TEXINFOS) + emacs -batch -l untabify.el $(info_TEXINFOS) $(gdbm_TEXINFOS) fix-sentence-spacing: - for file in $(info_TEXINFOS) $(cfpeek_TEXINFOS); \ + for file in $(info_TEXINFOS) $(gdbm_TEXINFOS); \ do \ if grep -q '\. [@A-Z]' $$file; then \ mv $$file $${file}~; \ |