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diff --git a/man3/hash.3 b/man3/hash.3 index ed99fe1..6ab717f 100644 --- a/man3/hash.3 +++ b/man3/hash.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)hash.3 8.6 (Berkeley) 8/18/94 .\" -.TH hash 3 2022-12-04 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH hash 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .UC 7 .SH NAME hash \- hash database access method @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Since glibc 2.2, glibc no longer provides these interfaces. Probably, you are looking for the APIs provided by the .I libdb library instead. -.PP +.P The routine .BR dbopen (3) is the library interface to database files. @@ -34,15 +34,15 @@ One of the supported file formats is hash files. The general description of the database access methods is in .BR dbopen (3), this manual page describes only the hash-specific information. -.PP +.P The hash data structure is an extensible, dynamic hashing scheme. -.PP +.P The access-method-specific data structure provided to .BR dbopen (3) is defined in the .I <db.h> include file as follows: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX typedef struct { @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ typedef struct { } HASHINFO; .EE .in -.PP +.P The elements of this structure are as follows: .TP 10 .I bsize @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ If is 0 (no order is specified), the current host order is used. If the file already exists, the specified value is ignored and the value specified when the tree was created is used. -.PP +.P If the file already exists (and the .B O_TRUNC flag is not specified), the @@ -111,12 +111,12 @@ and .I nelem are ignored and the values specified when the tree was created are used. -.PP +.P If a hash function is specified, .I hash_open attempts to determine if the hash function specified is the same as the one with which the database was created, and fails if it is not. -.PP +.P Backward-compatible interfaces to the routines described in .BR dbm (3), and @@ -137,9 +137,9 @@ Only big and little endian byte order are supported. .BR dbopen (3), .BR mpool (3), .BR recno (3) -.PP +.P .IR "Dynamic Hash Tables" , Per-Ake Larson, Communications of the ACM, April 1988. -.PP +.P .IR "A New Hash Package for UNIX" , Margo Seltzer, USENIX Proceedings, Winter 1991. |