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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 04:24:42 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
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Subject: Re: testdbm: segmentation fault
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Alec Mihailovs wrote:

> I just got a segmentation fault with core dumped 
> running testdbm. Testndbm tells that dbm_open failed. 
> I have a fresh installation of cygwin 1.3.2. 
> 
> It looks as though cygwin perl doesn't support dbm? 


sortof.  cygwin perl supports gdbm in its native (gdbm) mode, as well as 
in its emulation (ndbm) mode.  However, gdbm's ndbm emulation has 
problems on FAT drives (due to the non-existence of hardlinks).  Try 
running your test on NTFS drives.

--Chuck



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