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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?) 
Message-ID:  <200107101627.f6AGR6I02343@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <52429.994778677@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
References:  <86ae2chm99.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <52429.994778677@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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<<On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> said:

> The next step is for someone to see how hard it is to provide libc hooks
> for the DB 3.x functionality that nvi requires, without removing the
> existing DB 1.x functionality that other subsystems require.

It's actually fairly simple to do what is needed; it's just a rather
tedious and unpleasant task.

What needs to be done is that the DB 1.85 API that's in libc be
moved out to a separate library (call it `libdb185' or something
similar).  The actual code stays in libc for the use of internal libc
functions (getpw* in particular) and for the NDBM emulation which SUS
requires.

-GAWollman


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