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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: newaliases - segmentation fault?
Date: 18 May 93 21:40:50
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of Tue, 18 May 93 19:46:56 GMT
In article <1993May18.194656.10836@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>The dbm code is broken for btree stuff. I believe a newer (incompatable)
>version has been ported, and sendmail and family hacked to work with it,
>but I don't think this has made it into the patchkit, and I don't know if
>it's made it into NetBSD.
the new version of the DB code will be in the next released version of
NetBSD; it's currently in the "NetBSD-current" sources...
it is incompatible, both in binary format and in terms of the library
interface. however, it's a *lot* better... (and it works!)
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass