From uwe@ohse.de

i found a bug in the sdbm library. In short it loses data if it needs
more than one block in the .dir file.

The appended patch fixes the problem. It's not against the sdbm
included in perl and will possibly not patch in cleanly, but should
show what has to be done.

Regards, Uwe

Index​: sdbm.c

RCS file​: /var/cvs-pub/sdbm/sdbm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -u -r1.1.1.1 sdbm.c
--- sdbm.c 1999/08/04 15​:49​:34 1.1.1.1
+++ sdbm.c 1999/08/07 14​:59​:12
@​@​ -8,7 +8,7 @​@​
  */

#ifndef lint
-static char rcsid[] = "$Id​: sdbm.c,v 1.1.1.1 1999/08/04 15​:49​:34 uwe Exp $";
+static char rcsid[] = "$Id​: sdbm.c,v 1.2 1999/08/04 22​:14​:11 uwe Exp $";
#endif

#include "config.h"
@​@​ -453,9 +453,12 @​@​
  dirb = c / DBLKSIZ;

  if (dirb != db->dirbno) {
+ int got;
  if (lseek(db->dirf, OFF_DIR(dirb), SEEK_SET) < 0
- || read(db->dirf, db->dirbuf, DBLKSIZ) < 0)
+ || (got=read(db->dirf, db->dirbuf, DBLKSIZ)) < 0)
  return 0;
+ if (got==0)
+ memset(db->dirbuf,0,DBLKSIZ);
  db->dirbno = dirb;

  debug(("dir read​: %d\n", dirb));
@​@​ -476,9 +479,12 @​@​
  dirb = c / DBLKSIZ;

  if (dirb != db->dirbno) {
+ int got;
  if (lseek(db->dirf, OFF_DIR(dirb), SEEK_SET) < 0
- || read(db->dirf, db->dirbuf, DBLKSIZ) < 0)
+ || (got=read(db->dirf, db->dirbuf, DBLKSIZ)) < 0)
  return 0;
+ if (got==0)
+ memset(db->dirbuf,0,DBLKSIZ);
  db->dirbno = dirb;

  debug(("dir read​: %d\n", dirb));
@​@​ -486,8 +492,13 @​@​

  db->dirbuf[c % DBLKSIZ] |= (1 << dbit % BYTESIZ);

+#if 0
  if (dbit >= db->maxbno)
  db->maxbno += DBLKSIZ * BYTESIZ;
+#else
+ if (OFF_DIR((dirb+1))*BYTESIZ > db->maxbno)
+ db->maxbno=OFF_DIR((dirb+1))*BYTESIZ;
+#endif

  if (lseek(db->dirf, OFF_DIR(dirb), SEEK_SET) < 0
  || write(db->dirf, db->dirbuf, DBLKSIZ) < 0)