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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 22:09:38 -0400
From:      Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More questions about BDB
Message-ID:  <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net>
In-Reply-To: <4650D8F1.3060701@u.washington.edu>
References:  <4650D8F1.3060701@u.washington.edu>

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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Ok, I've run into a strange issue with BDB's hash tables.
>
> Does anyone know what the following means?
>
> db_dump185: seq: Invalid argument
>
> Backstory:
> When dumping out a large amount of data it appears that there's an 
> expected directive which isn't being inserted by Ruby's BDB1.85 
> facility into the database, or the directive is inappropriately 
> expected by the dumping tool that I'm using (possible byte precision 
> overlap, incorrect coding/heuristics somewhere).
>
> The only thing I can find regarding the directive under the 
> /usr/src/lib/libc/db/hash directory is something in hash.c and ndbm.c, 
> where it looks like seq according to ndbm.c links together two (or 
> more) sets of data, because of a data length issue and integer sizes, 
> I think.
>
> Thanks,
> -Garrett
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Just a personal curiosity. Is there a particular reason why FreeBSD is 
holding on to BDB 1.85?



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