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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: locking dbm files
Keywords: dbmopen, dbmclose, flock
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Date: 18 Mar 91 04:49:30 GMT
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In article <21131@shlump.nac.dec.com> evans@decvax.DEC.COM writes:

>It really seems ugly to me that the script needs to understand dbm naming
>conventions to perform the locking.

At least one ndbm-clone, namely sdbm provides an alternative for those
"naming conventions", it comes with an interface where the user can
specify the names of the data and index files.

Better still, use berkeley "hash" package.  [Btw isn't it about time perl
include support for b+tree databases?]

oz
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