Re: [qdbm-users] dpopen

[George N. <ge...@ne...>]

Mikio,

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Mikio Hirabayashi
<mi...@us...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> It seems to me these checks should -not- be qualified with  !(omode &
>> DP_ONOLCK)
>>
>> Is this a bug or intended?
>
> It is intended behaviour.
> When DP_ONOLCK is specified, validation to the database format is not
> assured.  So, check is omitted.

Sometimes an invalid depot file will be passed to dpopen(); and it
doesn't fail.  I will "mode & ~DP_ONOLCK" in my wrapper function to
force the header check for now.

Is it possible to have the dpopen() documentation mention DP_ONOLCK
turns off depot header and file size checks, it currently only
mentions that it opens a database without locking.

TIA,
George.