GHashTable reverse lookup / find key (patch exists)

[Bastiaan Veelo <Bastiaan Veelo net>]

Dear glib developers,

Long ago, Russel Shaw submitted a patch 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-June/msg00109.html to 
do reverse lookups in a GHashTable. That is, to find the key for a 
certain key/value pair. His post does not seem to have caused any 
reaction on the list, and it has not made it into glib 2.12.4 which I am 
using.

I am currently using a hack to get this functionality. Is there any 
chance that this patch eventually gets accepted? Should I submit a 
feature request on bugzilla?

P.S. Russel called his function g_hash_table_lookup_reverse(). But since 
this is not a cheap operation, maybe g_hash_table_find_key() is better, 
also because the only difference to g_hash_table_find() is just one 
identifier.


Thanks,
Bastiaan.