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Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:12:57 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: audit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: Please review: new implementation of hsearch(3)
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* Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> [010514 12:10] wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Our current hsearch(3) implementation is buggy in many ways.
> The most limiting factor is that it can only handle char *
> item.data despite the type was recently changed to void *.
> (See example in the manpage.)
> 
> The attached patch merely merges NetBSD re-implementation of
> the hsearch(3), which is POSIX.1-200x conformant.

Nice, it'd be sorta cool if we offered expanded versions that
allowed for more than one hash table at a time.

-Alfred

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