[jira] Reopened: (INFRA-2788) shorten.pl has incorrect $dbfile definition

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2788?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sebb reopened INFRA-2788:
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OK.

Another problem is the use of the DB_CREATE flag.

Should the database ever disappear, a new one will silently be created.
Which would allow duplicate keys to be created. Not good.

Seems to me it would be a lot safer to require that the database exists and fail otherwise.

> shorten.pl has incorrect $dbfile definition
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: INFRA-2788
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2788
>             Project: Infrastructure
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>         Environment: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/shorten/shorten.pl
>            Reporter: Sebb
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I think the line
> $dbfile = '../db/store.dbm';
> should really be
> $dbfile = 'store.dbm';
> because the file is relative to the -Home flag, not the current working directory.
> The ../db obviously works, but serves no purpose.

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