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[2003-09-16 02:02] Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
> It'd be nice to have a flag to gdbm_setopt() or similar which would
> cause gdbm_firstkey() and gdbm_nextkey() to return entries in a
> lexicographically sorted fashion, or I suppose even with an arbitrary
> comparison function if somebody were feeling particularly industrious
> (although I don't need that myself). When migrating man-db from Berkeley
> DB to GDBM and brushing up the old support code, I just had to write a
> hashtable of ordered hashtables in order to do the sort myself without
> turning lots of code upside down, which is not the most pleasant data
> structure in the world.
>
> I'm guessing that gdbm could also manage a more efficient sorted
> traversal internally than I can in a wrapper.

This bugreport asks for very significant change, so it is better to
discuss it directly with upstream.

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