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)

Samba                                             Aug 16, 2000                                            TDB(3)