source: gsdl/trunk/common-src/packages/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3/gdbmfetch.c@ 18019

Last change on this file since 18019 was 18019, checked in by mdewsnip, 15 years ago

Added gdbm-1.8.3 (downloaded as gdbm-1.8.3.tar.gz and unpacked), in preparation for adding code for reading both little and big endian databases.

File size: 2.6 KB
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1/* gdbmfetch.c - Find a key and return the associated data. */
2
3/* This file is part of GDBM, the GNU data base manager, by Philip A. Nelson.
4 Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5
6 GDBM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 any later version.
10
11 GDBM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with GDBM; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
18 the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
19
20 You may contact the author by:
21 e-mail: [email protected]
22 us-mail: Philip A. Nelson
23 Computer Science Department
24 Western Washington University
25 Bellingham, WA 98226
26
27*************************************************************************/
28
29
30/* include system configuration before all else. */
31#include "autoconf.h"
32
33#include "gdbmdefs.h"
34#include "gdbmerrno.h"
35
36/* Look up a given KEY and return the information associated with that KEY.
37 The pointer in the structure that is returned is a pointer to dynamically
38 allocated memory block. */
39
40datum
41gdbm_fetch (dbf, key)
42 gdbm_file_info *dbf;
43 datum key;
44{
45 datum return_val; /* The return value. */
46 int elem_loc; /* The location in the bucket. */
47 char *find_data; /* Returned from find_key. */
48 int hash_val; /* Returned from find_key. */
49
50 /* Set the default return value. */
51 return_val.dptr = NULL;
52 return_val.dsize = 0;
53
54 /* Initialize the gdbm_errno variable. */
55 gdbm_errno = GDBM_NO_ERROR;
56
57 /* Find the key and return a pointer to the data. */
58 elem_loc = _gdbm_findkey (dbf, key, &find_data, &hash_val);
59
60 /* Copy the data if the key was found. */
61 if (elem_loc >= 0)
62 {
63 /* This is the item. Return the associated data. */
64 return_val.dsize = dbf->bucket->h_table[elem_loc].data_size;
65 if (return_val.dsize == 0)
66 return_val.dptr = (char *) malloc (1);
67 else
68 return_val.dptr = (char *) malloc (return_val.dsize);
69 if (return_val.dptr == NULL) _gdbm_fatal (dbf, "malloc error");
70 bcopy (find_data, return_val.dptr, return_val.dsize);
71 }
72
73 /* Check for an error and return. */
74 if (return_val.dptr == NULL) gdbm_errno = GDBM_ITEM_NOT_FOUND;
75 return return_val;
76}
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