From: jwilkins@secnet.com ("Jonathan Wilkins") Subject: gdbm 1.7.3 port 19 Dec 1996 18:03:15 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612200216.TAA28380.cygnus.gnu-win32@silence.secnet.com> Reply-To: jwilkins@secnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com alright.. here is a little more detail on the gdbm problem... the code that seems to be broken is in bucket.c and relates to a read.. there is a code fragment as follows... num_bytes = read(dbf->desc, dbf->bucket, dbf->header->bucket_size); num_bytes is an int, and read is supposed to return an int.. here's where it gets silly.. I add the line: printf("num_bytes = %d\n\ndbf->desc = %d\ndbf->bucket = %p\ndbf-header->bucket_size = %d\n", num_bytes, dbf->desc, dbf->bucket, dbf->header->bucket_size); sorry it's a little ugly.. anyway, it outputs: num_bytes = 88 dbf->desc = 3 dbf->bucket = 0x2eb5804 dbf->header->bucket_size = 1024 the next line of code is: if (numbytes != dbf->header->bucket_size) _gdbm_fatal (dbf, "read error"); which ends the program... if I comment out the _gdbm_fatal stuff it'll choke later on complaining that sync() is not implemented.. now, I am not sure if it's a problem with the gdbm code, or if it's a problem with the cygwin stuff.. I am pretty sure that the absence of the sync() function is not responsible as it usually doesn't get that far.. anyway, does anyone have any suggestion on what to look at next? I seem to also remember a compiled version of the gdbm library (libgdbm.a) from beta 14... if anyone has that could they forward it to me? thanks Jonathan Jonathan Wilkins | " If only they had used jwilkins@secnet.com | for niceness Secure Networks Inc | instead of evil ... " - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".