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.\"
.\" @(#)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.