1.5 KiB
Version 1.85 of the Berkeley DB code
For information on compiling and installing this software, see the file PORT/README.
Newer versions of this software will periodically be made available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu. An archive in compressed format is in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.Z, or in gzip format in ucb/4bsd/db.tar.gz. If you'd like to receive announcements of future releases of this software, send email to the contact address below.
Distribution contents
Makefile.inc - Ignore this, it's the 4.4BSD subsystem Makefile.
PORT - The per OS/architecture directories to use to build libdb.a, if you're not running 4.4BSD. See the file
PORT/README for more information.
README - Original README file.
btree - The B+tree routines.
changelog - List of changes, per version.
db - The dbopen(3) interface routine.
docs - Various USENIX papers, and the formatted manual pages.
hash - The extended linear hashing routines.
man - The unformatted manual pages.
mpool - The memory pool routines.
recno - The fixed/variable length record routines.
test - Test package.
Debugging
If you're running a memory checker (e.g. Purify) on DB, make sure that you recompile it with "-DPURIFY" in the CFLAGS, first. By default, allocated pages are not initialized by the DB code, and they will show up as reads of uninitialized memory in the buffer write routines.
Version
NetBSD: README,v 1.3 1996/05/03 21:17:07 cgd Exp
@(#)README 8.27 (Berkeley) 9/1/94