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NetBSD and FreeBSD have db 1.85 as part of the base system. There is also gdbm, which provides db compatibility and a similar interface. It happens to be installed on my system and is required by sawfish/librep. My system also has sleepycat db3 installed, required by a lot of gnome stuff. So while a rwcdb implementation is nice, using native db, gdbm, or db3 would have the advantage of not having more code to maintain and perhaps having a standard on-disk format that could be read by perl etc. db3 is pretty large, though, but it's not like coda servers are small already. Sorry to be difficult, but I don't see why this is hard. <flamebait>Are the mainstream Linux distributions really this broken?</> And I noticed your post was 4/1, but I've been hearing db1.85 rumblings for a long time. Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com>Received on 2003-04-02 09:24:49