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author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1997-03-09 11:57:19 +1200 |
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committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-03-09 11:57:19 +1200 |
commit | 68dc074516a6859e3424b48d1647bcb08b1a1a7d (patch) | |
tree | 125011c6d8e4a04727ff97166dc19199809958e4 /ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm | |
parent | 699e6cd4da8c333ef83554732e73ab6734463b5d (diff) | |
download | perl-68dc074516a6859e3424b48d1647bcb08b1a1a7d.tar.gz |
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_93 to perl-5.003_94]
BUILD PROCESS
Subject: Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: Configure
Subject: Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure
Subject: patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT
From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
Files: installman installperl
I got the new installhtml from CPAN
(TOMC/scripts/pod2html-v2.0beta.shar.gz)
I had problems getting the system call to splitpod at line 376 to work.
1. splitroot was not being found
2. splitroot was not finding its library
3. I changed htmlroot to podroot at line 175 to match the documentation.
p5p-msgid: 3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk
private-msgid: 21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk
Subject: 3_93 doesn't install pods
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500
From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
Files: installperl
Msg-ID: 199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 43506a616735d616e03d277d64fbae1e864024bf)
Subject: When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: installperl
Subject: Make hint files' warnings more visible
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET)
From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh
private-msgid: 199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
Subject: New special literal: __PACKAGE__
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c
Subject: Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t
Subject: allow C<substr 'hello', -10>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800
From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>
Files: pp.c
Msg-ID: 97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 77f720bf92f3d0100352416caeedd57936807ff2)
Subject: Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c
Subject: Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
Subject: Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c sv.c toke.c
Subject: Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
Subject: Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Subject: Don't say 'static var = 1'
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Files: malloc.c
private-msgid: 199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi
Subject: HP/UX hint comments
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: hints/hpux.sh
private-msgid: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette.
Subject: VMS update
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms
Msg-ID: 1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 2b5725676da60b49978f38b85bb7f8ee20b4cb55)
Subject: vmsish.t and related patches
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c
private-msgid: 01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu
Subject: Win32 update (four patches)
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c win32/*
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: perlfaq.pod
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall
private-msgid: 199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com
Subject: *.pod changes based on the FAQ
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST)
From: Nat Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod
Msg-ID: 199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 3c10ad8e31f7d77e71c048b1746912f41cb540f0)
Subject: Document that $. is not reset on implicit open
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Subject: Re: Embedding success with _93
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Msg-ID: 199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 63a6ff3a1dc8d86edb4d8a7ec1548205e32a7114)
Subject: Patch to document illegal characters
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod
private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com
Subject: Document trap with //o and closures
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: pod/perltrap.pod
Msg-ID: 01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu
(applied based on p5p patch as commit a54cb1465fdb400848f23705a6f130bb5c34ab70)
Subject: Illegal character in input
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com
Subject: Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: pod/perlop.pod
private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com
Subject: XSUB's doc fix
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
Msg-ID: 28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 5f43237038ea7a4151d3bf65aeeecd56ceb78a6a)
Subject: Document return from do FILE
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000
From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk
(applied based on p5p patch as commit ba8d5fb439878113de8abc9b52d2af237d30fb3c)
Subject: Document $^M in perlvar
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT
From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
Files: pod/perlvar.pod
private-msgid: 6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk
Subject: typos in pods of 5.003_93
Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod
Msg-ID: wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 76a9873e006cf8f48f57062b2a0dd40b5ed45a95)
Subject: Re: Updates to pod punctuations
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500
From: Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
Files: pod/*.pod
private-msgid: 9703141700.AA22911@cas.org
Subject: clarify example in perlfunc
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
private-msgid: 199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi
Subject: Regularize headings in DB_File documentation
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Subject: New module: autouse.pm
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm
Msg-ID: 199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 6757905eccb6dd0440ef65e8128a277a20f7d943)
Subject: Refresh DB_File to 1.12
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
Msg-ID: 9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk
(applied based on p5p patch as commit b3deed9189f963e9994815307931f9084f60d1d9)
Subject: In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/File/Path.pm
Subject: Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/Getopt/Long.pm
Subject: Problems with SKIP in makemaker
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Msg-ID: 199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 970322a2e8024294ada6e8d1a027cb98f1f48ee3)
Subject: In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/Exporter.pm
Subject: fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Files: lib/Exporter.pm
Msg-ID: 2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 2768ea1aeef34f42d096f198fbe629c8374ca429)
Subject: Don't try to substr() refs in Carp
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/Carp.pm
Subject: Re: NUL in die and other messages
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000
From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Files: lib/Carp.pm
Msg-ID: E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 52a267c574cb66c4bc35601dcf148a1d7a3bc557)
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c
Subject: For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h
Subject: Fix C<print> on tied default handle
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c
Subject: Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c
Subject: Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
Subject: Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c
Subject: Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c
Subject: printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c x2p/util.c
Msg-ID: 26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com
(applied based on p5p patch as commit e125f273e351a19a92b69d6244af55abbbf0a26d)
Subject: Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Files: perl.c
Msg-ID: 199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 71aeea1753924e6e19c2461e241e3f7d8a570e90)
Diffstat (limited to 'ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm')
-rw-r--r-- | ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm | 37 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm b/ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm index d962b88b2e..c2609a074b 100644 --- a/ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm +++ b/ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # DB_File.pm -- Perl 5 interface to Berkeley DB # # written by Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk) -# last modified 6th Feb 1997 -# version 1.11 +# last modified 12th Mar 1997 +# version 1.12 # # Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT $AUTOLOAD $DB_BTREE $DB_HASH $DB_RECNO) ; use Carp; -$VERSION = "1.11" ; +$VERSION = "1.12" ; #typedef enum { DB_BTREE, DB_HASH, DB_RECNO } DBTYPE; $DB_BTREE = new DB_File::BTREEINFO ; @@ -326,6 +326,10 @@ module you should really have a copy of the Berkeley DB manual pages at hand. The interface defined here mirrors the Berkeley DB interface closely. +Please note that this module will only work with version 1.x of +Berkeley DB. Once Berkeley DB version 2 is released, B<DB_File> will be +upgraded to work with it. + Berkeley DB is a C library which provides a consistent interface to a number of database formats. B<DB_File> provides an interface to all three of the database types currently supported by Berkeley DB. @@ -365,7 +369,7 @@ number. =back -=head2 How does DB_File interface to Berkeley DB? +=head2 Interface to Berkeley DB B<DB_File> allows access to Berkeley DB files using the tie() mechanism in Perl 5 (for full details, see L<perlfunc/tie()>). This facility @@ -533,7 +537,7 @@ The DB_HASH file format is probably the most commonly used of the three file formats that B<DB_File> supports. It is also very straightforward to use. -=head2 A Simple Example. +=head2 A Simple Example This example shows how to create a database, add key/value pairs to the database, delete keys/value pairs and finally how to enumerate the @@ -645,7 +649,7 @@ database. =back -=head2 Handling duplicate keys +=head2 Handling Duplicate Keys The BTREE file type optionally allows a single key to be associated with an arbitrary number of values. This option is enabled by setting @@ -752,7 +756,7 @@ that prints: This time we have got all the key/value pairs, including the multiple values associated with the key C<Wall>. -=head2 The get_dup method. +=head2 The get_dup() Method B<DB_File> comes with a utility method, called C<get_dup>, to assist in reading duplicate values from BTREE databases. The method can take the @@ -893,7 +897,7 @@ negative indexes. The index -1 refers to the last element of the array, -2 the second last, and so on. Attempting to access an element before the start of the array will raise a fatal run-time error. -=head2 The bval option +=head2 The 'bval' Option The operation of the bval option warrants some discussion. Here is the definition of bval from the Berkeley DB 1.85 recno manual page: @@ -1144,7 +1148,7 @@ destroyed. undef $db ; untie %hash ; -See L<The untie Gotcha> for more details. +See L<The untie gotcha> for more details. All the functions defined in L<dbopen> are available except for close() and dbopen() itself. The B<DB_File> method interface to the @@ -1333,7 +1337,7 @@ in the background to watch the locks granted in proper order. close(DB_FH); print "$$: Updated db to $key=$value\n"; -=head2 Sharing databases with C applications +=head2 Sharing Databases With C Applications There is no technical reason why a Berkeley DB database cannot be shared by both a Perl and a C application. @@ -1391,10 +1395,10 @@ F<authors/id/TOMC/scripts/nshist.gz>). untie %hist_db ; -=head2 The untie gotcha +=head2 The untie() Gotcha If you make use of the Berkeley DB API, it is is I<very> strongly -recommended that you read L<perltie/The untie gotcha>. +recommended that you read L<perltie/The untie Gotcha>. Even if you don't currently make use of the API interface, it is still worth reading it. @@ -1642,6 +1646,10 @@ Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files when db Documented the untie gotcha. +=item 1.12 + +Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB. + =back =head1 BUGS @@ -1658,7 +1666,10 @@ suggest any enhancements, I would welcome your comments. B<DB_File> comes with the standard Perl source distribution. Look in the directory F<ext/DB_File>. -Berkeley DB is available at your nearest CPAN archive (see +This version of B<DB_File> will only work with version 1.x of Berkeley +DB. It is I<not> yet compatible with version 2. + +Version 1 of Berkeley DB is available at your nearest CPAN archive (see L<perlmod/"CPAN"> for a list) in F<src/misc/db.1.85.tar.gz>, or via the host F<ftp.cs.berkeley.edu> in F</ucb/4bsd/db.tar.gz>. Alternatively, check out the Berkeley DB home page at F<http://www.bostic.com/db>. It |