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Don't use die.net! The manpages there were last updated 10+ years ago. It's very unfortunate that that site does so well on Google.

This API is laughably bad, almost completely useless. But it is in POSIX <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/hcreate.html" rel="nofollow">https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/h...</a> so it is ubiquitous as well as useless.

Does someone know why these are not reentrant without the GNU extension? It seems like a really weird choice to make a library for hash tables and then make the state global like that.

Is there a command-line interface for this, or is it strictly library-only?<p>Would be cool if there were a way to point to a memmapped region under /dev/shm or equivalent.

I usually turn to C++ when I need such things. Hopefully I remember this exists next time.

Don't use die.net! The manpages there were last updated 10+ years ago. It's very unfortunate that that site does so well on Google.

Does someone know why these are not reentrant without the GNU extension? It seems like a really weird choice to make a library for hash tables and then make the state global like that.

Is there a command-line interface for this, or is it strictly library-only?<p>Would be cool if there were a way to point to a memmapped region under /dev/shm or equivalent.

I usually turn to C++ when I need such things. Hopefully I remember this exists next time.

Hcreate(3)

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Hcreate(3)

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