On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:47:26PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:30:40PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> Just wondering if anyone knew of a good BSD license compatible key-based >>> hash placement / retrieval algorithm that was available anywhere. >>> I'm looking for a reliable way to lookup objects to see if a given >>> action >>> would be performed in my revised pkg_install(1), to thus efficiently >>> pre-plan out the installation dependencies and fully utilize >>> multiprocessing capabilities of contemporary machines / eliminate >>> duplicate >>> dependency install requirements. >>> I know I can use tree structures or hash(3), but I want to avoid trees >>> (inefficient with large data sets of course) and I was looking for a >>> non-BDB based solution (for right now, with this given structure as I >>> don't >>> want to write everything to disk). Later on it might be a good idea to >>> cache the results using BDB on disk, but for now I was just wondering if >>> there were any non-BDB based hashing solutions that anyone knew of. >> >> We imported hash(9) from Open/NetBSD recently. It may do what you want. >> >> -- Brooks > > Brooks, > Looks promising, but how difficult would it be to port the code to > other > platforms (Win32 for instance?). If possible (and this is lower prio > because FreeBSD has a lot more apps available as pkgs / ports compared to > Win32), I'm looking for a solution that would be easily portable, as I'm > trying to effectively kill two birds with one stone by programming an > equivalent generalized app / infrastructure for my current job (large scale > Windows administration and staying on top of software updates is a pain > with and without M$ products), and maybe for open market as well.
Why not try compiling it there? If you're looking from a hash algorithm for pkg_install(1) you'll need a good technical reason why you can't use sys/hash.h and need to import something else. -- Brooks
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