Changeset 61ce0b1 for chapter06/gdbm.xml

Timestamp:

06/14/2014 07:51:45 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

DJ Lucas <dj@…>

Branches:

7.6-systemd, 7.7-systemd, 7.8-systemd, 7.9-systemd

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c09761a

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6f34f43

Message:

Synchronized with LFS-SVN-20140611.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/systemd/BOOK@10576 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/gdbm.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

chapter06/gdbm.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The GDBM package contains the GNU Database Manager.  This is a disk
-    file format database which stores key/data-pairs in single files.  The
-    actual data of any record being stored is indexed by a unique key, which can
-    be retrieved in less time than if it was stored in a text file.</para>
+    <para>The GDBM package contains the GNU Database Manager.  It is a library
+    of database functions that use extensible hashing and work similar to the
+    standard UNIX dbm.  The library provides primitives for storing key/data
+    pairs, searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key
+    along with its data. </para>
 
     <segmentedlist>
@@ -83 +84 @@
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>testgdbm</seg>
+        <seg>gdbm_dump, gdbm_load, and gdbmtool</seg>
         <seg>libgdbm.{a,so} and libgdbm_compat.{a,so}</seg>
       </seglistitem>
@@ -93 +94 @@
       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 
-      <varlistentry id="testgdbm">
-        <term><command>testgdbm</command></term>
+      <varlistentry id="gdbm_dump">
+        <term><command>gdbm_dump</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Dumps a GDBM database to a file.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm gdbm_dump">
+            <primary sortas="b-gdbm_dump">gdbm_dump</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="gdbm_load">
+        <term><command>gdbm_load</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Recreates a GDBM database from a dump file.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm gdbm_load">
+            <primary sortas="b-gdbm_load">gdbm_load</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="gdbmtool">
+        <term><command>gdbmtool</command></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>Tests and modifies a GDBM database</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm testgdbm">
-            <primary sortas="b-testgdbm">testgdbm</primary>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm gdbmtool">
+            <primary sortas="b-gdbmtool">gdbmtool</primary>
           </indexterm>
         </listitem>
@@ -113 +134 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry id="libgdbm_compat">
+        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgdbm_compat</filename></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Compatibility library containing older DBM functions</para>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm libgdbm_compat">
+            <primary sortas="c-libgdbm_compat">libgdbm_compat</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
     </variablelist>