[comp.databases] C-ISAM 3.10 refuses to close it's files.

ra@is.uu.no (Robert Andersson) (10/26/89)

I'm running the C-ISAM package from Informix on a number of different
machines. One annoying 'feature' is that even if my program calls
isclose(), the C-ISAM library only closes the file logically. It 
never calls the UNIX close() system call for the .dat and .idx files.

I can sort of see why Informix did this to speed up programs 
closing and reopening the same file. However, this feature is undocu-
mented and I know of no way to turn it of.

The problem, of course, is that this behaviour causes the file and inode
tables to overflow sooner or later.

Any hints out there?
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