22 Dec
2010
22 Dec
'10
2:04 a.m.
a bug in bdb made them regularly overwrite random adjacent data, including other people's accounts. It was not a fun experience.
ouch! I wonder if a Perl 'tied-hash' interface was being implemented along with BDB 'duplicate keys'? A definite no no. You would certainly get overwrites, though not quite random.
Sean