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History

cgd e4cf519e27 fix a bug that shows up only on alphas: ndbm "datum" variables can't be cast to DBTs, because the 'size' fields are int and size_t, respectively, and that means that the DBT size field would be partially filled with garbage on the Alpha. Bug fix sent to bostic.		1996-05-04 00:38:58 +00:00
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btree	merge DB 1.85 changes	1996-05-03 21:50:36 +00:00
db	add unintrusive Ids	1995-02-27 13:19:23 +00:00
hash	fix a bug that shows up only on alphas: ndbm "datum" variables can't be	1996-05-04 00:38:58 +00:00
man	merge DB 1.85 changes	1996-05-03 21:26:48 +00:00
mpool	merge DB 1.85 changes	1996-05-03 21:26:48 +00:00
recno	merge DB 1.85 changes	1996-05-03 21:38:43 +00:00
Makefile.inc	add unintrusive Ids	1995-02-27 13:19:23 +00:00
README	clean up README files and merge properly with 1.85	1996-05-03 21:17:07 +00:00
changelog	add RCS id	1996-05-03 21:20:56 +00:00
db2netbsd	a script, along the lines of the gcc2netbsd script used to set up gcc	1996-05-03 22:43:02 +00:00

README

#	$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 1996/05/03 21:17:07 cgd Exp $
#	@(#)README	8.27 (Berkeley) 9/1/94

This is version 1.85 of the Berkeley DB code.

For information on compiling and installing this software, see the file
PORT/README.

Newer versions of this software will periodically be made available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu.  An archive in compressed format
is in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z, or in gzip format in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.gz.  If
you'd like to receive announcements of future releases of this software,
send email to the contact address below.

Email questions may be addressed to Keith Bostic at bostic@cs.berkeley.edu.

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Distribution contents:

Makefile.inc	Ignore this, it's the 4.4BSD subsystem Makefile.
PORT		The per OS/architecture directories to use to build
		libdb.a, if you're not running 4.4BSD.  See the file
		PORT/README for more information.
README		This file.
btree		The B+tree routines.
changelog	List of changes, per version.
db		The dbopen(3) interface routine.
docs		Various USENIX papers, and the formatted manual pages.
hash		The extended linear hashing routines.
man		The unformatted manual pages.
mpool		The memory pool routines.
recno		The fixed/variable length record routines.
test		Test package.

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Debugging:

If you're running a memory checker (e.g. Purify) on DB, make sure that
you recompile it with "-DPURIFY" in the CFLAGS, first.  By default,
allocated pages are not initialized by the DB code, and they will show
up as reads of uninitialized memory in the buffer write routines.