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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 11:12:35 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha AT swing DOT be>
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Subject: Re: problems with gdbm ????
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Okay, it looks like we have confirmation that gdbm is not fully ported 
w.r.t. text/binary issues.  (Its inclusion in the official distribution 
predated the *requirement* that this be completed -- at the time it was 
only a suggestion).   So, I hereby solicit patches that change
   open(...., "r") to open(...., "rb")
   open(...., "w") to open(...., "wb")  etc.
and
   fopen(...., FLAGS) to fopen(...., FLAGS | O_BINARY)
at all **appropriate** places in the gdbm code.

Thanks,
Chuck
volunteer gdbm maintainer for cygwin.

Godefroid Chapelle wrote:

> 
>> At 13:24 30/01/2002, Jason Tishler wrote:
>>
>>> Godefroid,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
>>> > >When trying the test_gdbm.py of Python 2.2, I get a
>>> > >
>>> > >gdbm fatal: read error
>>> > >
>>> > >message.
>>> > >
>>> > >Can someone point me a resource which could help me ?
>>>
>>> Sorry, but the following may not be of much help...
>>>
>>> Since I'm the Cygwin Python maintainer, I frequently run the regression
>>> test suite.  I have never had a test_gdbm failure.  Possibly this is
>>> because I run exclusively with binary mode mounts, NT/2000, NTFS, and
>>> ntsec.  What is your setup?
>>
>>
>>
>> /, /usr/bin and /usr/lib were previously mounted as text (I did not 
>> know anything of binary versus text).
>>
>> I am now able to run testgdbm.exe which is supplied with the gdbm c 
>> package.
>> As I stated on cygwin list, I previously got CPU load more than 95%  
>> when trying this test.
>>
>> test_gdbm.py is also working now...
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot. !!!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> HTH,
>>> Jason
>>
> 
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