[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] Add hash table support as base for new environment code

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201012080444.30675.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> unless i'm missing something, the non-reentrant versions operate on a single 
> shared hash table.  so while this works today because there is only one 

Correct.

> consumer (the env code), wont this cause problems as soon as someone else 
> tries to use the non-reentrant hash table code ?  as such, wouldnt it make
> sense to punt all of the non-reentrant versions and thus force everyone to
> maintain their own "struct hsearch_data" instance ?

This could be done, but I don't see an immediate need.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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