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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2014-05-20 17:25:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2014-05-20 17:25:05 +0000 |
| commit | 377cfd011610da9f9e00209cb42404982c900847 (patch) | |
| tree | c1fc5f13a2ff30ed9c52c2f621287fc096798015 /chapter06 | |
| parent | 8aa7fdeb1c7acf441548f5b19f9e342cce67924f (diff) | |
Reword gdbm description
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10568 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/gdbm.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/gdbm.xml b/chapter06/gdbm.xml index f08a365a2..a5dacdbcc 100644 --- a/chapter06/gdbm.xml +++ b/chapter06/gdbm.xml @@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ <sect2 role="package"> <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> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> |