From: dahe@cre.canon.co.uk (David Elworthy) Subject: GDBM 28 Nov 1997 16:25:12 -0800 Message-ID: <347EE49E.D3608BCF.cygnus.gnu-win32@cre.canon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com A little while ago there was a discussion on getting gdbm to work with gnuwin32. If you do it blindly, you get fatal read errors, and the proposed cure was to mount the filesystem with the gdbm database file on it as binary using mount -b. A simpler solution is this: edit gdbmopen.c, and in every open call, add "|O_BINARY" to the second parameter, so you get things like dbf->desc = open(dbf->name, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY, 0); There's about 4 places you need to make the change. After doing this, it should work no matter how the file system was mounted. I've only tried this on a couple of small examples, but it seemed to work OK. -- David Elworthy _______________________________________________________________________ David Elworthy Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd., Guildford, Surrey, UK URL: http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/ Phone: +44 1483 448844; Fax: +44 1483 448845 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".