On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > ...
Now I find that not only do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C program that uses the distributed libgdbm.
You didn't say how long ago the problem started, but looking at the files in sys-libs/gdbm I see nothing newer than March 20. Is your problem newer than March 20? Have you tried running your test program with strace?