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From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Does NDBM dbm_delete() work?
Date: 21 Mar 1996 01:52:59 -0800
Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA
Lines: 43
Message-ID: <4ir8tr$kbt@zebu.serv.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: zebu.serv.net
I have a dbm password database system that I've been using under various
unix versions which seems to work fine execpt under FreeBSD. It looks
like the call to dbm_delete() -claims- to succeed, but doesn't
do anything.
All other dbm functions (add, fetch, etc.) seem to work fine.
any hints would be appreciated.
--
The code looks as follows.
#define DBM_REPLACE O_RDWR|O_CREAT
void remove_user(char *dbname,char *username)
{
datum key,value;
DBM *database;
/* remove pw to database */
database = dbm_open(dbname,DBM_REPLACE,0755);
if (!database){
printf("Can't open database %s. \n",dbname);
return;
}
key.dptr = username;
key.dsize = 1+strlen(username);
if (dbm_delete(database,key))
printf("User %s not deleted.\n",username);
else
printf("User %s deleted.\n",username);
dbm_close(database);
}
--
Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet)
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