From 377cfd011610da9f9e00209cb42404982c900847 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Dubbs Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 17:25:05 +0000 Subject: Reword gdbm description git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10568 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/gdbm.xml | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06') 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 @@ - <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> -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf