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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/AnyDBM_File.3perl b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/AnyDBM_File.3perl new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a254ed75 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/AnyDBM_File.3perl @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.01 (Pod::Simple 3.43) +.\" +.\" Standard preamble: +.\" ======================================================================== +.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) +.if t .sp .5v +.if n .sp +.. +.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text +.ft CW +.nf +.ne \\$1 +.. +.de Ve \" End verbatim text +.ft R +.fi +.. +.\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. +.ie n \{\ +. ds C` "" +. ds C' "" +'br\} +.el\{\ +. ds C` +. ds C' +'br\} +.\" +.\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" +.\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for +.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index +.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the +.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. +.\" +.\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. +.de IX +.. +.nr rF 0 +.if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 +.if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ +. if \nF \{\ +. de IX +. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" +.. +. if !\nF==2 \{\ +. nr % 0 +. nr F 2 +. \} +. \} +.\} +.rr rF +.\" ======================================================================== +.\" +.IX Title "AnyDBM_File 3perl" +.TH AnyDBM_File 3perl 2024-01-12 "perl v5.38.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" +.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH NAME +AnyDBM_File \- provide framework for multiple DBMs +.PP +NDBM_File, DB_File, GDBM_File, SDBM_File, ODBM_File \- various DBM implementations +.SH SYNOPSIS +.IX Header "SYNOPSIS" +.Vb 1 +\& use AnyDBM_File; +.Ve +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +This module is a "pure virtual base class"\-\-it has nothing of its own. +It's just there to inherit from one of the various DBM packages. It +prefers ndbm for compatibility reasons with Perl 4, then Berkeley DB (See +DB_File), GDBM, SDBM (which is always there\-\-it comes with Perl), and +finally ODBM. This way old programs that used to use NDBM via \fBdbmopen()\fR +can still do so, but new ones can reorder \f(CW@ISA:\fR +.PP +.Vb 2 +\& BEGIN { @AnyDBM_File::ISA = qw(DB_File GDBM_File NDBM_File) } +\& use AnyDBM_File; +.Ve +.PP +Having multiple DBM implementations makes it trivial to copy database formats: +.PP +.Vb 4 +\& use Fcntl; use NDBM_File; use DB_File; +\& tie %newhash, \*(AqDB_File\*(Aq, $new_filename, O_CREAT|O_RDWR; +\& tie %oldhash, \*(AqNDBM_File\*(Aq, $old_filename, 1, 0; +\& %newhash = %oldhash; +.Ve +.SS "DBM Comparisons" +.IX Subsection "DBM Comparisons" +Here's a partial table of features the different packages offer: +.PP +.Vb 10 +\& odbm ndbm sdbm gdbm bsd\-db +\& \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\- \-\-\-\-\-\- +\& Linkage comes w/ perl yes yes yes yes yes +\& Src comes w/ perl no no yes no no +\& Comes w/ many unix os yes yes[0] no no no +\& Builds ok on !unix ? ? yes yes ? +\& Code Size ? ? small big big +\& Database Size ? ? small big? ok[1] +\& Speed ? ? slow ok fast +\& FTPable no no yes yes yes +\& Easy to build N/A N/A yes yes ok[2] +\& Size limits 1k 4k 1k[3] none none +\& Byte\-order independent no no no no yes +\& Licensing restrictions ? ? no yes no +.Ve +.IP [0] 4 +.IX Item "[0]" +on mixed universe machines, may be in the bsd compat library, +which is often shunned. +.IP [1] 4 +.IX Item "[1]" +Can be trimmed if you compile for one access method. +.IP [2] 4 +.IX Item "[2]" +See DB_File. +Requires symbolic links. +.IP [3] 4 +.IX Item "[3]" +By default, but can be redefined. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +\&\fBdbm\fR\|(3), \fBndbm\fR\|(3), \fBDB_File\fR\|(3), perldbmfilter |