Re: Using LMDB safely with fork() and exec()

On 23 August 2016 at 11:01, Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:

Lorenz Bauer wrote:

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If this works, I'd like to contribute the changes necessary to not leak fds on exec, which are mentioned in the other thread.

• Are there contribution guidelines somewhere? How do I submit a patch?

Read http://www.openldap.org/ "Contributing"

Thanks, I'll get the necessary legalese sorted.

I have noticed that mdb_env_copy2 behaves differently on POSIX vs. Windows: Windows always turns off caching / buffering where POSIX only does that when DB pages are larger than OS pages. What is the reason for that?