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From: whm@arizona.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: 4.3BSD ndbm(3) key/content length restriction
Message-ID: <1739@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 20:31:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: megaron.1739
Posted: Tue May 26 20:31:11 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 06:00:57 EDT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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The man page for ndbm(3) says:

    The sum of the sizes of a key/content pair must not exceed the internal
    block size (currently 4096 bytes).

However, it appears that the actual limit is 1024, rising from #define
PBLKSIZ 1024 in <ndbm.h>.  We found that changing PBLKSIZ to 4096 seems
to work just fine, but it's not clear what's in error, the man page or the
code.

					Bill Mitchell
					whm@arizona.edu
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