Bug 14954

Summary:	search.h is missing
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Tony Finch <dot>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	3.3-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Tony Finch 1999-11-17 20:10:00 UTC

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.

Since these functions are in GNU libc I expect that in the near future
there will be more software out there that uses them.

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn 1999-11-18 10:52:06 UTC

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?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

Comment 2 Tony Finch 1999-11-18 11:26:19 UTC

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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Comment 3 Tony Finch 2000-10-09 15:04:09 UTC

The API is now available in -CURRENT so this PR can be closed.

Tony.
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Comment 4 dwmalone freebsd_committer

2000-10-09 18:06:17 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Closed at submitter's request.