Re: [bdbxml] dbxml shell utility confusion

Michael Allman wrote:
> I thought that "dbxml -h ." and "dbxml" did the same thing.  I thought 
> that's what the documentation means when it says "by default, the 
> current working directory is used.".  It appears the former joins the 
> environment in the working directory whereas the latter does something 
> else (not sure what).
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or a case of misreading the documentation. 
> Either way, I think everyone reading this list deserves a "heads up". 
> I've spent many hours trying to figure out why I couldn't find the 
> documents I just placed in a container in the same environment but a 
> different process.  When I used "dbxml -h ." things magically started 
> working . . .

I think this is a bug in the documentation. Without the "-h" option, the 
shell opens a DB_PRIVATE environment of it's own.

John

-- 
John Snelson, Berkeley DB XML Engineer
Sleepycat Software, Inc
http://www.sleepycat.com

Contracted to Sleepycat through Parthenon Computing Ltd
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