Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/14954: search.h is missing Message-ID: <199911181130.DAA21264@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/14954; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/14954: search.h is missing
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:26:19 +0000
Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:59:29 GMT, Tony Finch wrote:
>
> > FreeBSD is missing the <search.h> header from SVID, but it is present
> > in NetBSD and OpenBSD. They also have implementations of the tsearch
> > etc. routines originally obtained from public domain sources by ESR.
> > There is an hsearch compatible interface to Berkeley DB which is
> > already in FreeBSD's libc.
>
> So is it a simple case of importing the header file, or are there
> interfaces missing in the API?
You also need the tsearch.[c3] and tfind.c files from
src/lib/libc/stdlib in {Net,Open}BSD.
There might be a better alternative to using Berkeley DB for the
hsearch functions, but I couldn't find any other suitable existing
code out there.
Tony.
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