On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:06:21PM +0100, James Mansion wrote: > Kurt J. Lidl wrote: >> There are known problems with certain keys corrupting the DB 1.8x >> series code. In fact, the "release" of the 1.86 was an attempt >> to solve this problem when the KerberosV people at MIT found >> a repeatable key insert sequence that would corrupt things. >> (Or at least that's what I remember, it was a long time ago, and >> I might have the details wrong.) >> > Have to say its a little concerning that such 'mature' code is actually > problematic. > Particularly since I'm not aware of a non-LGPL alternative. > > Do you have anything by way of a pointer? Google didn't help me here.
This is somewhat alluded to here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01560.html You might want to read the entire thread on that issue. There is the comment in the Oracle web pages about 1.86 vs 1.85: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/db/index.html "Do not upgrade to the 1.86 release other than to fix specific hash access method problems found in the 1.85 release." And in the "Berkeley DB: A Retrospective" paper (http://sites.computer.org/debull/A07Sept/seltzer.pdf), Margo notes: "Db-1.85 enjoyed widespread adoption after its release with 4.4BSD. In particular, both the MIT Kerberos project and the University of Michigan LDAP project incorporated it. A group at Harvard released a minor patch version db-1.86 for the Kerberos team in 1996." So, I think my recollection is correct. -Kurt _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
