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Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:25:23 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
--- Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
> > Charles,
> >
> > Jarkko removed NDBM_File & ODBM_File from Cygwin builds.
> > What do you think, should I try to reinclude them? Is
> > it doing s.th. useful I'm not aware of? I cannot remember
> > the reason why it was removed. I'll try to figure out
> > after I know if I should reinclude it.
> > Someone else needs ODBM_File or NDBM_File in future?
>
>
> It's a core feature of perl -- so if possible we should supply it. Why
> did Jarkko remove it? Merely because of the one test failure?
>
> I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system;
> gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on NTFS.
Why not? I'm sure there has to be a way to get around this limitation?
Cheers,
Nicholas
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