Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?

[Nicholas Wourms]

--- Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
> > Charles,
> > 
> > Jarkko removed NDBM_File & ODBM_File from Cygwin builds.
> > What do you think, should I try to reinclude them?  Is
> > it doing s.th. useful I'm not aware of?  I cannot remember
> > the reason why it was removed.  I'll try to figure out
> > after I know if I should reinclude it.
> > Someone else needs ODBM_File or NDBM_File in future?
> 
> 
> It's a core feature of perl -- so if possible we should supply it.  Why 
> did Jarkko remove it?  Merely because of the one test failure?
> 
> I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system; 
> gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on NTFS.

Why not?  I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this limitation?

Cheers,
Nicholas

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