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From: animal <animal@skylink.net>
To: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: .dir .pag .db
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that was a mistake in typing only.....
it should look like this....

kename.dptr = "animal";
kename.dsize = strlen(kename.dptr)+1;

whatto.dptr = "Data to store";
whatto.dsize = strlen(whatto.dptr)+1;



On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Tom wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, animal wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am for one haveing a hard time even getiing any documentation on all of
> > these....
> > 
> > When i create a database with perl it makes a .db.....
> > 
> > but i am trying to compile a c prog that will add keys to a data base...
> > 
> > can you tell me what i am doing wrong....
> > 
> > I use this to create the database......
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #include <ndbm.h>
> > 
> > main() {
> > 
> > 	DBM *db;
> > 
> > 	db = dbm_open("/usr/local/radius/users",O_CREAT,0000664);
> > 	
> > 	dbm_close(db);
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > and then i am trying to add data to it by..........
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #include <ndbm.h>
> > 
> > 
> > main() {
> > 
> > 	DBM *db
> > 	datum kename,whatto;
> > 
> > 	db = dbm_open("/usr/local/radius/users",O_WRONLY,0000664);
> > 
> > 	kename.dptr = "animal";
> > 	kename.dsize = strlen(kename.dptr)+1;
> > 
> > 	whatto.dptr = "Data to be stored in database";
> > 	kename.dsize = strlen(whatto.dptr)+1;
> 
>   This is a bit of problem.  You are setting kename.dsize twice, and the
> second time to the length of whatto.dptr, so dbm_store will read beyond
> the end of kename.dptr.
> 
> > 	if (dbm_store(db,kename,whatto,DBM_INSERT) < 0) {
> > 		printf("Insert messed up");
> > 	}
> > 	
> > 	dbm_close(db);
> > }
> 
> Tom
> 
> 


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