control: tag -1 +wontfix control: close -1 [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.
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