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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-04-23 07:47:35 +1200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-04-23 07:47:35 +1200 |
| commit | df21098dee6cddac7ceb9961573c47705b48c3c4 (patch) | |
| tree | b9f74f830f9d651f0dfffe854773841d0b9fea0c /man3/dbopen.3 | |
| parent | 1463d772022e0409d4b5983cdfff5b002b6f1f5b (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-df21098dee6cddac7ceb9961573c47705b48c3c4.tar.gz | |
btree.3, dbopen.3, hash.3, mpool.3, recno.3: Note that glibc no longer provides these interfaces
glibc stopped providing these interfaces with v2.2.
Nowadays, the user that finds these pages probably wants
the libdb API, so note this in the page.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337581
Reported-by: Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/dbopen.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/dbopen.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/dbopen.3 b/man3/dbopen.3 index 9bfc16bbbb..1b9f3a13ca 100644 --- a/man3/dbopen.3 +++ b/man3/dbopen.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)dbopen.3 8.5 (Berkeley) 1/2/94 .\" -.TH DBOPEN 3 1994-01-02 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH DBOPEN 3 2012-04-23 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .UC 7 .SH NAME dbopen \- database access methods @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ dbopen \- database access methods .BI " const void *" openinfo ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION +.IR "Note well" : +This page documents interfaces provided in glibc up until version 2.1. +Since version 2.2, glibc no longer provides these interfaces. +Probably, you are looking for the APIs provided by the +.I libdb +library instead. + .BR dbopen () is the library interface to database files. The supported file formats are btree, hashed and UNIX file oriented. |