NAME
tdb - trivial database
SYNOPSIS
A database similar to gdbm which allows multiple simultaneous writers.
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple database API. It was inspired by the realisation that
in Samba we have several ad-hoc bits of code that essentially implement
small databases for sharing structures between parts of Samba. As I was
about to add another I realised that a generic database module was
called for to replace all the ad-hoc bits.
I based the interface on gdbm. I couldn’t use gdbm as we need to be
able to have multiple writers to the databases at one time.
AUTHORS
Software: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com> and Luke Kenneth
Casson Leighton Man page: Ben Woodard <ben@valinux.com>
SEE ALSO
gdbm(3), tdb_open(3), tdb_close(3), tdb_delete(3), tdb_error(3),
tdb_exists(3), tdb_fetch(3), tdb_firstkey(3), tdb_store(3),
tdb_traverse(3), tdb_lockall(3), tdb_lockkeys(3), tdb_chainlock(3)