From: Rob McCool <robm@netscape.com>
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: Enterprise's NSAPI
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 17:35:07 -0700

Oleg Polonskiy wrote:
> 
> Does anyone now why dbm_open("a", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0664) which is
> called from AuthTran directive creates file with .id extension instead
> of .pag and  .dir on Enterprise b4 HTTPD server

There appears to be a namespace conflict between our code (which
contains its own db implementation) and the system ndbm.a.

If you link your .so directly with the system's libndbm.a (if it's
available), you should get the version of the dbm_* calls you need.

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Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...

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