Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-08 Thread Wes Peters
Tony Finch wrote: > > User Joe wrote: > > > >Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there > >locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database > >files? > > The web pages for Berkeley DB 2 claim that it does (note version 2, > not 1.85 as shippe

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-08 Thread Wes Peters
Tony Finch wrote: > > User Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there > >locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database files? > > The web pages for Berkeley DB 2 claim that it does (note version 2, > no

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-07 Thread Tony Finch
User Joe wrote: > >Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there >locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database >files? The web pages for Berkeley DB 2 claim that it does (note version 2, not 1.85 as shipped with FreeBSD). http://www.sleepycat

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-07 Thread Tony Finch
User Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there >locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database files? The web pages for Berkeley DB 2 claim that it does (note version 2, not 1.85 as shipped with FreeBSD). ht

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-07 Thread Wes Peters
User Joe wrote: > > Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there > locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database > files? No. I've heard that Cygnus newlib has a thread-safe version of db or dbm, but haven't checked it out myself. It may be

Re: Berkeley DB question

1999-07-07 Thread Wes Peters
User Joe wrote: > > Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there > locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database files? No. I've heard that Cygnus newlib has a thread-safe version of db or dbm, but haven't checked it out myself. It may bear