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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: fork affecting ndbm requests?
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.174654.4143@world.std.com>
Date: 20 Oct 89 17:46:54 GMT
Reply-To: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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I have an application which opens an ndbm database read-only and forks
several children to do a lot of queries on that database.  I get
periodic dbm_fetch() failures if I do this when I am certain the
records exist.  This does not happen if the application does all of
the fetches unparallelized, but there are performance losses.

Is there some reason I should not fork after opening the database?

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com