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From: Edouard CORREIA <ded@magic.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: dbm or equivalent in BSDi ?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:43:22 +0000
Organization: Magic NET
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On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Richard Gilligan wrote:
> Many unix systems have a very simple database feature called DBM or NDBM.
> Our BSDi 2.0 out of the box does not seem to have this feature and my
> 4.4BSD manual for O'Reilly mentions nothing by those names leading me to
> wonder if it even exists for BSD. Perl has hooks that make it easy to use
> DBM (which has come in very handy when I was working around UNIX(r) System
> V Release 4 and IRIX Release 5.2).
>
Of course there is a basic Database package called DB which provide Btree
Hash table and Records access methods. It'is very efficient for a lot of
uses and provide memory cache access for a good optimisation.
This stuff is largely used under BSDI (the compiled password file, etc...).
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