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   Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 15:40:06 JST Ian Douglas Scott

   @mwk This is also my favorite part of POSIX, which I've been ranting about for years to anyone who will listen (and some who wont).

   Unix philosophy = do one thing; use (up to) one hash table.

   (More seriously: why? Does anyone use it? Was it *originally* more useful somehow?)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 15:40:05 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Wolf480pl
     @wolf480pl @ids1024 @mwk Even found one called hcreate in rustc: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=hcreate%28+package%3A%5CQrustc%5CE&literal=1
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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 15:40:06 JST Wolf480pl

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     @ids1024 @mwk looks like there is,some software that uses it:
     - mtr https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/ui/asn.c#L338
     - openzfs https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/master/cmd/zstream/zstream_decompress.c#L94
     - openrsync https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync/blob/master/flist.c#L1433

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 15:45:17 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Wolf480pl
     @wolf480pl @ids1024 @mwk Also other than OpenBSD there is hcreate_r in Unixes which should allow for multiple hash tables.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 15:54:44 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Wolf480pl
     @wolf480pl @mwk @ids1024 Yeah, that said POSIX is made by what Unixes have. And if it's in glibc, musl, FreeBSD, NetBSD, … only way it couldn't get into POSIX is if somehow it's got important implementation differences.
     
     Here's the bug tracker https://austingroupbugs.net/ :)
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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 15:54:45 JST Wolf480pl

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan @mwk @ids1024
     yes but it's not standard, read other replies to the OP :P