This is 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.