control: tag -1 +wontfix control: close -1 [2003-09-16 02:02] Colin Watson <cjwatson@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. -- X-Web-Site: https://sinsekvu.github.io | Note that I process my email in batch, Accept-Languages: eo,ru,en | at most once every 24 hours. If matter Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff | is urgent, you have my phone number.
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