Re: [Exim] New exim code having DB writing problems

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Author: Kevin P. Fleming
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] New exim code having DB writing problems
Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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>>(Doh! I just found the problem. A stray O_RDONLY was still on the
>>dbfn_open call.... Wonder how it worked for the first record?)
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> Magic. Software is like that.
>


Yep... just a note for your mental files. A dbfn_open call (with BDB
4.0) with _only_ O_RDONLY specified (not O_CREAT) for a non-existant
database will create it, and it will be read-write until dbfn_close is
called.

Weird behavior, that.