From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com>
To: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020710212523.32658.qmail@web21003.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D2C7418.9090704@ece.gatech.edu>
--- 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-10 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <45100201091.20020630142110@familiehaase.de>
[not found] ` <149122724768.20020630203633@familiehaase.de>
2002-07-09 23:23 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2002-07-10 11:41 ` Charles Wilson
2002-07-10 15:59 ` Nicholas Wourms [this message]
2002-07-10 17:52 ` Charles Wilson
2002-07-10 18:51 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-10 18:58 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-10 19:19 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-10 19:19 ` Charles Wilson
2002-07-10 19:21 ` Charles Wilson
2002-07-11 6:30 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-11 8:26 ` Charles Wilson
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