GDBM Version 1.24

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Wed Jul 3 11:54:42 2024.

GNU dbm version 1.24 is available for download. New in this version:

New gdbm_load option: --update

The --update (-U) option instructs gdbm_load to update an existing database.

Fix semantics of gdbm_load -r

The --replace (-r) is valid only when used together with --update.

Use getline in gdbmtool shell

New function: gdbm_load_from_file_ext

In contrast to gdbm_load and gdbm_load_from_file, which derive the value of the flag parameter for gdbm_open from the value of their replace argument, this function allows the caller to specify it explicitly.

Bugfixes

• Fix binary dump format for key and/or data of zero size (see bug #565)
• Fix location tracking and recover command in gdbtool (see bug #566)
• Fix possible buffer underflow in gdbmload.
• Ensure any padding bytes in avail_elem structure are filled with 0. This fixes https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031276.
• Improve the documentation.