> > I see that exim_dbmbuild makes no provision for restoring the old .dir file after it > > has been replaced if the rename of the .pag file files. It seems very very unlikely
> > that this would happen but ...
>
> That's a bit of paranoia that I should have included, yes. At the time,
> exim_dbmbuild was a quick lash-up to get something working, and it never
> got revisited. Noted.
>
I have installed the cdbm package so that I can work with single-file dbms and avoid
the potential update problem. For my part, therefore, I do not consider the
addition of locking as a priority at present.
I am running on SGI IRIX and that now has a single-file dbm option called mdbm.
That is what it now uses for the NIS maps. However, it requires the use of function
calls with "mdbm_..." names rather than "ndbm_..." and different arguments, so I
would have had to change all the calls in the exim source to use that. One wonders
how many more dbm variants we will end up with!
Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster@???)
University of Exeter
