From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 7 16:50: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA24914E9D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA26853; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA05496; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:49:21 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA15564; Wed, 7 Jul 99 16:49:20 PDT Message-Id: <3783E780.C9AB3D41@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:49:20 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: User Joe Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Berkeley DB question References: <199907072028.NAA21795@monk.via.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG User Joe wrote: > > Is the berkeley db (or any other small db) multi user safe? Are there > locks to maintain coherency of multiple processes access the same database files? No. I've heard that Cygnus newlib has a thread-safe version of db or dbm, but haven't checked it out myself. It may bear looking into. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message