glibc-2.0.95 and ndbm.h?

Matthias Urlichs smurf@noris.de
Sun Aug 16 22:04:00 GMT 1998


  drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) writes:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> > One thing i noticed with the perl testsuite is that db2 now does not
> > accept empty size keys any more.  This did work with db1, and neither gdbm
> > nor the real ndbm have this restriction (otherwise perl could not use it).
> 
> I've talked to Keith and it turns out this is a known problem.  The
> solution is probably that the Perl module maintainer will remove this
> test and zero sized keys are declared to be a bug.

This has been done. Too bad, IMHO -- this is another (but, fortunately,
minor) incompatibility between "normal" and DBized hashes.

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Matthias Urlichs
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