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Re: database support in rpm

From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
Date: Tue 31 Jul 2007 - 19:09:13 CEST
Message-ID: <20070731170913.GA57238@engelschall.com>
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
>> We are using fcntl(2) locking for DB in RPM since over 5 years now and
>> never encountered any problems. And we drive RPM on really lots of
>> different platforms. So, I expect that fcntl(2) locking will not make
>> any problems at all...
>
> With or without DB_INIT_CDB, i.e. with concurrent write acces or not?

The "cdb" option is set in "macros" for the DB files if this is what you
mean...
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com
Received on Tue Jul 31 19:10:20 2007
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