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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)
To: sheldonh@starjuice.net (Sheldon Hearn)
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:20:23 +0300 (EEST)
Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr (Giorgos Keramidas),
	bostic@sleepycat.com (Keith Bostic), mi@aldan.algebra.com,
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> 
> 
> 
> On 10 Jul 2001 17:49:54 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> > Is DB 3.x the only workaround for these bugs?
> 
> Even if it's not, it's a bit much to expect SleepyCat to do the extra
> work of providing the alternative fix.
> 
> I think this has probably gone as far as it can for now.
> 
> The next step is for someone to see how hard it is to provide libc hooks
> for the DB 3.x functionality that nvi requires, without removing the
> existing DB 1.x functionality that other subsystems require.

At the first glance it is not a big problem - nvi could build its own
private static DB3 library and link against it, leaving DB 1.x for libc.

-Maxim

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