#15664 [Opn->Bgs]: dba_firstkey() isn't returning the first key

ID: 15664 Updated by: iliaa@php.net Reported By: caperry@webofficenow.com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: DBM/DBA related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment: Not enough information was provided for us to be able to handle this bug. Please re-read the instructions at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php If you can provide more information, feel free to add it to this bug and change the status back to "Open". Thank you for your interest in PHP. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-21 16:06:10] caperry@webofficenow.com Well, it figures that after I open a bug I can't reproduce it. 8^) It does appear to be random, as we never see it in testing, but when the code is being pounded on by a few people at once, it's more frequent. All the code I have is rather large and complicated. I can give some senarios: We use a GDBM file as a log for file transfers. When clearing the log, we do a dba_firstkey and check if it's OKay to be deleted. If it is, we delete the key and do a dba_firstkey again. A lot of times the first few items are skipped this way. We have another piece of code the pulls "big" (greater than 100 chars) values out of a database and puts 10 of them in a GDBM file. Again, it occasionally skips the first one or two. I have some example code, but as I said - it seems to work right now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-21 14:23:23] mrobinso@php.net Can you attach a short, concise snippet of code I can use to reproduce this please? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-21 14:18:06] caperry@webofficenow.com Using dba with the gdbm backend. Creating a new database and inserting 10 values. When I go to look at that database using a dba_firstkey() followed by a series of dba_nextkey() calls, I do not get back all the data. If I ask for specific keys that did not show up, they exist and have data. Any ideas? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=15664&edit=1