Subject: Re: gdbm 1.7.3 port complete
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

22 Jan 1997 18:14:55 -0800
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A. Phillip Smith wrote:
> 
> 	2. The O_BINARY flag was added to prevent premature return from read.

The default for opens under NT is always text mode.  This is one of the
normal porting to NT problems...

> 	3. fsync does not work and was conditionally disabled. This prevents 
> 	informational error message output from the system.

As of 17.1, fsync was still a dummy call that did nothing.  Our latest
development sources have an initial implementation so this problem may
go away next time we make a release.

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Geoffrey Noer
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