FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Craig Spannring wrote:

> 
> 
> The following code is meant to improve the way the interfaces file is
> handled.
> 
> The hostname search order is-
> 
>    1)  A logical server from the file set by the
>        set_interfaces_file_loc() function.
>    2)  A logical server from the $HOME/.interfaces file.
>    3)  A logical server from the $SYBASE/interfaces file.
>    4)  The actual server name if no matching logical server was found.
> 
> If it uses defaults to an actual name instead of logical name it will 
> use port 1433 for TDS4.2 and port 4000 for any other version of TDS.
> The port can be overridden with the DBLIB_PORT environment variable.
> 
> Note-  The code replaces the existing get_server_info() function.
> 

Looks great, the only thing I was thinking is that if you explicitly set
an interfaces file, then a failure to open that should error back to the
program.  i.e. running 'isql -I <file> ...' will error if <file> doesn't
exist.

I'm putting in the next set of patches for PHP in CVS tonight, the thing
will actually return some data now...but subsequently core dumps the child
httpd.  PHP's sybase-ct will also compile now, but is not running yet.

We should probably wrap up a new release soon. (Once I find the seg
fault). Probably call it 0.40. What'dya think?

Brian