From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 10 9:27:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D2F37B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6AGR6I02343; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:27:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:27:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200107101627.f6AGR6I02343@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?) In-Reply-To: <52429.994778677@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <86ae2chm99.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <52429.994778677@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > 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. It's actually fairly simple to do what is needed; it's just a rather tedious and unpleasant task. What needs to be done is that the DB 1.85 API that's in libc be moved out to a separate library (call it `libdb185' or something similar). The actual code stays in libc for the use of internal libc functions (getpw* in particular) and for the NDBM emulation which SUS requires. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message