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diff --git a/man3/recno.3 b/man3/recno.3 index a4a38d2..afc4e72 100644 --- a/man3/recno.3 +++ b/man3/recno.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)recno.3 8.5 (Berkeley) 8/18/94 .\" -.TH recno 3 2022-12-04 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH recno 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .UC 7 .SH NAME recno \- record number database access method @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Since glibc 2.2, glibc no longer provides these interfaces. Probably, you are looking for the APIs provided by the .I libdb library instead. -.PP +.P The routine .BR dbopen (3) is the library interface to database files. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ One of the supported file formats is record number files. The general description of the database access methods is in .BR dbopen (3), this manual page describes only the recno-specific information. -.PP +.P The record number data structure is either variable or fixed-length records stored in a flat-file format, accessed by the logical record number. @@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ one through four, and the deletion of record number one causes record number five to be renumbered to record number four, as well as the cursor, if positioned after record number one, to shift down one record. -.PP +.P The recno access-method-specific data structure provided to .BR dbopen (3) is defined in the .I <db.h> include file as follows: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX typedef struct { @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ typedef struct { } RECNOINFO; .EE .in -.PP +.P The elements of this structure are defined as follows: .TP .I flags @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ is non-NULL, it specifies the name of the btree file, as if specified as the filename for a .BR dbopen (3) of a btree file. -.PP +.P The data part of the key/data pair used by the .I recno access method @@ -169,12 +169,12 @@ the implementation. The .I size field of the key should be the size of that type. -.PP +.P Because there can be no metadata associated with the underlying recno access method files, any changes made to the default values (e.g., fixed record length or byte separator value) must be explicitly specified each time the file is opened. -.PP +.P In the interface specified by .BR dbopen (3), using the @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Only big and little endian byte order is supported. .BR dbopen (3), .BR hash (3), .BR mpool (3) -.PP +.P .IR "Document Processing in a Relational Database System" , Michael Stonebraker, Heidi Stettner, Joseph Kalash, Antonin Guttman, Nadene Lynn, Memorandum No. UCB/ERL M82/32, May 1982. |