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Re: [LI] What is dbopen ?



On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 03:16:44PM +0530, Ghins Mathai wrote:
> Have some questions.
> .
> The man page says that dbopen  is  the  library interface to database files. My
> question is :
> what are the .db file (for e.g. aliases.db ). Does the above man page speak of
> opening these files. Where can I get the source code for this function (dbopen
> ) ? Where can I learn the format of these files ?

.db files are in Berkeley db format. It was written by Keith Bostic, one
of the authors of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating 
System" (a great book if you want to learn about UNIX kernels).

For more info:

http://www.sleepycat.com
http://www.bostic.com/keith.html

	-Arun

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