It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

Paul Rubin http
Mon May 5 01:53:05 EDT 2003


martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis) writes:
> Patches in that direction are welcome. They should be based on the
> principle that bsddb185 should only be used to open existing files,
> and not (normally) to create new files, except when explicitly
> requested by the application.

ISTR that Netscape also uses bsddb 1.85 format for its certificate store.

Is there some problem with the 1.85 format?  Or just bugs in the
library?  If the format is still in use but the library has bugs, the
obvious answer is to fix the bugs, not deprecate the library.




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