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NSS Shared DB

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Shared Database Proposal: note changeover to SQLite
== Shared Database Proposal ==
Prior to version 3.34, NSS has had been using an old version of the Berkeley DataBase as its database engine since Netscape Navigator 2.0 in 1994. This database engine is commonly described in NSS documents as "DBM" and has a
number of limitations. One of the most severe limitations concerns the
number of processes that may share a database file. While any process has
Multiple processes may share a DBM database ONLY if they ALL access it
READ-ONLY. Processes cannot share a DBM database file if ANY of them wants
to update it.  NOTE: Since 3.34, NSS has moved to an [[NSS SQLite-based DB]].
This limitation has been cumbersome for applications that wish to use NSS.
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