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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: tsearch(3) and tfind return incorrect pointers
Keywords: tsearch(3)
Message-ID: <14963@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 24 Jan 91 01:14:41 GMT
References: <888@amix.commodore.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <888@amix.commodore.com> ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) writes:
>I had an occation to use the SysV tree manipulation routines in libc
>(tsearch(3)) for the first time today, and discovered that they don't
>work.

Actually, they DO work, but the interface documentation is botched
beyond belief, and when it was reworked for SVID 3 (and SVR4), the
types were gotten utterly wrong.  Consequently I avoid the library
versions and use my own implementation with proper types, etc.

Some time ago, Gary Moss <Moss@BRL.MIL> published his implementation
of these functions; you might contact him for a copy.