story@can503.UUCP (Robert Story) (11/10/89)
We (embarrassingly) use btrieve as our file manager on Xenix. For anyone else
using it you should be aware of a bug which was introduced in the latest
release of 4.11. The interface code contains a line which assigns the pid to
the global returnPID. This is as it was in earlier releases except that now
it is done within the initialization code. I assume this was done so that the
assignment would not be done each time that btrieve() was called. Fair
enough, except that if your process forks you will never read any messages off
the queue as you will be looking for those messages of your ppid!! Ergo, I
also assume that the person who made this change is a DOS programmer. (I
believe that btrieve was originally a DOS product. Oh would that it would
have stayed thus).
These opinions are not shared by my employer, for indeed, he has none.
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