On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > Is anyone aware of a safe to way to do multi-process read/write access
> > through a dbm module other than BerkeleyDB.pm without tie-ing and
> > untie-ing every time? I thought that was the only safe thing to do
> > because of buffering issues, but this seems to be implying that careful
> > use of sync calls or something similar would do the trick. Maybe this is
> > just left over from before the problem with the old technique described in
> > the DB_File docs was discovered? Any comments?
>
> Well, I wrote this based on my experience. I've used the code that does
> locking coupled with sync() and it worked fine.
You mean with DB_File? There's a big warning in the current version
saying not to do that, because there is some initial buffering that
happens when opening a database.
- Perrin
