[p4] P4 monitor show

Robert Cowham robert at vaccaperna.co.uk
Fri Jan 5 04:51:56 PST 2007


> It suggests running another daemon and linking the db.monitor 
> file to the live one. This seems to indicate that when it's 
> busy it does not fail to update this table, just fails to 
> connect or run "monitor show".
> That being the case is it possible to have direct database 
> access without going through p4? Not sure how different it is 
> from Berkeley db now.

Perforce db files are not 100% binary compatible with Berkely ones - I
really wouldn't go near them on my live server except via p4d...

Robert


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