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v1_9_1_378 - Show latest stable - 0 notes - Class: GDBM

new(p1, p2 = v2, p3 = v3) public

Creates a new GDBM instance by opening a gdbm file named filename. If the file does not exist, a new file with file mode mode will be created. flags may be one of the following:

READER - open as a reader
WRITER - open as a writer
WRCREAT - open as a writer; if the database does not exist, create a new one
NEWDB - open as a writer; overwrite any existing databases

The values WRITER, WRCREAT and NEWDB may be combined with the following values by bitwise or:

SYNC - cause all database operations to be synchronized to the disk
NOLOCK - do not lock the database file

If no flags are specified, the GDBM object will try to open the database file as a writer and will create it if it does not already exist (cf. flag WRCREAT). If this fails (for instance, if another process has already opened the database as a reader), it will try to open the database file as a reader (cf. flag READER).

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static VALUE
fgdbm_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE obj)
{
    VALUE file, vmode, vflags;
    GDBM_FILE dbm;
    struct dbmdata *dbmp;
    int mode, flags = 0;

    if (rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "12", &file, &vmode, &vflags) == 1) {
        mode = 0666;            /* default value */
    }
    else if (NIL_P(vmode)) {
        mode = -1;              /* return nil if DB does not exist */
    }
    else {
        mode = NUM2INT(vmode);
    }

    if (!NIL_P(vflags))
        flags = NUM2INT(vflags);

    SafeStringValue(file);

    if (flags & RUBY_GDBM_RW_BIT) {
        flags &= ~RUBY_GDBM_RW_BIT;
        dbm = gdbm_open(RSTRING_PTR(file), MY_BLOCK_SIZE, 
                        flags, mode, MY_FATAL_FUNC);
    }
    else {
        dbm = 0;
        if (mode >= 0)
            dbm = gdbm_open(RSTRING_PTR(file), MY_BLOCK_SIZE, 
                            GDBM_WRCREAT|flags, mode, MY_FATAL_FUNC);
        if (!dbm)
            dbm = gdbm_open(RSTRING_PTR(file), MY_BLOCK_SIZE, 
                            GDBM_WRITER|flags, 0, MY_FATAL_FUNC);
        if (!dbm)
            dbm = gdbm_open(RSTRING_PTR(file), MY_BLOCK_SIZE, 
                            GDBM_READER|flags, 0, MY_FATAL_FUNC);
    }

    if (!dbm) {
        if (mode == -1) return Qnil;

        if (gdbm_errno == GDBM_FILE_OPEN_ERROR ||
            gdbm_errno == GDBM_CANT_BE_READER ||
            gdbm_errno == GDBM_CANT_BE_WRITER)
            rb_sys_fail(RSTRING_PTR(file));
        else
            rb_raise(rb_eGDBMError, "%s", gdbm_strerror(gdbm_errno));
    }

    dbmp = ALLOC(struct dbmdata);
    free_dbm(DATA_PTR(obj));
    DATA_PTR(obj) = dbmp;
    dbmp->di_dbm = dbm;
    dbmp->di_size = -1;

    return obj;
}

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