[tpop3d-discuss] mailspool_save_index() using STDIO

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:14:46 +0100


On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:14:58PM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> 
> Ok, understood.. unrelated note.. has there been much call for a
> dbmfile authenticator? It would be very easy to replicate most of the
> flatfile authenticator, but simply checking a dbm file instead in the
> interest of speed where there are thousands of entries. If that would
> be welcome, I'll work on that..

Well... dbm files are particularly easy to do in perl.
Unless there's a really good reason, I'd have thought that
perl is a better option for it.

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