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- /* gdbmfetch.c - Find a key and return the associated data. */
-
- /* This file is part of GDBM, the GNU data base manager, by Philip A. Nelson.
- Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- GDBM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- GDBM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with GDBM; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- You may contact the author by:
- e-mail: phil@wwu.edu
- us-mail: Philip A. Nelson
- Computer Science Department
- Western Washington University
- Bellingham, WA 98226
- phone: (206) 676-3035
-
- *************************************************************************/
-
- /*
- * MS-DOS port (c) 1990 by Thorsten Ohl, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- *
- * To this port, the same copying conditions apply as to the
- * original release.
- *
- * IMPORTANT:
- * This file is not identical to the original GNU release!
- * You should have received this code as patch to the official
- * GNU release.
- *
- * MORE IMPORTANT:
- * This port comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
- *
- * $Header: e:/gnu/gdbm/RCS/gdbmfetc.c'v 1.4.0.1 90/08/16 09:22:27 tho Exp $
- */
-
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <sys/types.h>
- #ifndef MSDOS
- #include <sys/file.h>
- #endif /* not MSDOS */
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- #include "gdbmdefs.h"
- #include "systems.h"
- #include "gdbmerrno.h"
- extern gdbm_error gdbm_errno;
-
- /* Look up a given KEY and return the information associated with that KEY.
- The pointer in the structure that is returned is a pointer to dynamically
- allocated memory block. */
-
- datum
- gdbm_fetch (dbf, key)
- gdbm_file_info *dbf;
- datum key;
- {
- datum return_val; /* The return value. */
- int elem_loc; /* The location in the bucket. */
- char *find_data; /* Returned from find_key. */
- LONG hash_val; /* Returned from find_key. */
-
- /* Set the default return value. */
- return_val.dptr = NULL;
-
- /* Find the key and return a pointer to the data. */
- elem_loc = _gdbm_findkey (dbf, key, &find_data, &hash_val);
-
- /* Copy the data if the key was found. */
- if (elem_loc >= 0)
- {
- /* This is the item. Return the associated data. */
- return_val.dsize = dbf->bucket->h_table[elem_loc].data_size;
- return_val.dptr = (char *) malloc (return_val.dsize);
- if (return_val.dptr == NULL) _gdbm_fatal (dbf, "malloc error");
- bcopy (find_data, return_val.dptr, return_val.dsize);
- }
-
- /* Check for an error and return. */
- if (return_val.dptr == NULL) gdbm_errno = GDBM_ITEM_NOT_FOUND;
- return return_val;
- }
-
-
-