Re: [MacPerl] Database locking

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

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Walter Hinton <red@dig-it.com> writes:
>Can anyone point me to information about locking a tied database (Using
>DB_File.pm)

Hmm. Anything you read in the standard Perl docs is not going to work on the
Mac.

>But, the Berkeley DB Faq (http://mongoose.bostic.com/db/faq.html) says:
>"Yes. DB supports locking and concurrent access. Applications using the 
>standard database formats do not need to do the locking themselves, the 
>access methods do it for them. "

That's DB 2.x, for which Perl support is only starting to emerge.

Matthias

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