Add global unihash table; use universal hashing instead of CRC.

[mLib] / man / mLib.3

diff --git a/man/mLib.3 b/man/mLib.3
index f109d19886b2e5757416aacf2200cb4cd6039882..f7d55114a6e24b797cf14aad90f9e7dc9e2bf9ee 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mLib.3
+++ b/man/mLib.3
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" -*-nroff-*-
-.TH mLib 3 "7 July 1999" mLib
+.TH mLib 3 "7 July 1999" "Straylight/Edgeware" "mLib utilities library"
 .SH NAME
 mLib \- library of miscellaneous utilities
 .\" @mLib
@@ -147,8 +147,14 @@ stack operations efficiently.
 .SS "Miscellaneous utilities"
 The
 .BR crc32 (3)
-module calculates CRC values for strings.  It's used by the symbol table
-manager as a hash function.
+module calculates CRC values for strings.  It used to be used by the
+symbol table manager as a hash function.
+.PP
+The
+.BR unihash (3)
+module implements a simple but efficient universal hashing family.  This
+is a keyed hash function which provides security against an adversary
+choosing input to a hash table deliberately to cause collisions.
 .PP
 The
 .BR lock (3)
@@ -167,6 +173,11 @@ The
 module manipulates file descriptor flags in a fairly painless way.
 .PP
 The
+.BR fwatch (3)
+module allows you to easily find out whether a file has changed since
+the last time you looked at it.
+.PP
+The
 .BR lbuf (3)
 module implements a `line buffer', which is an object that emits
 completed lines of text from an incoming asynchronous data stream.  It's
@@ -261,6 +272,7 @@ module does background hostname and address resolution.
 .BR env (3),
 .BR exc (3),
 .BR fdflags (3),
+.BR fwatch (3),
 .BR hash (3),
 .BR ident (3),
 .BR lbuf (3),