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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> writes:

> In this specific example, we use whatever
> BerkeleyDB provides and we're certainly not about to write our own
> transactional embedded database engine just for this.

BerkeleyDB is free software after all that comes with source code. 
Surely it can be fixed without rewriting it from scratch.

Has anybody contacted the Sleepycat people with a description of the 
problem yet?

-Andi