ndbm.h- shared dbm files?

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From: kannan at cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (R. Kannan)
Path: cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu!kannan

In the application we are developing we have more than one process
using the same dbm. Some of them read and some them write.

How can we approach this, just as an ordinary file?

Thanks

---kannan