Re: dangerous hash usage?

Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:

> That's a confusing @remark. I would suggest it be changed to one of these if one of these is correct:
>
> * @remark During an iteration it is safe to delete the current hash entry,
> * but not to delete any other entry or to add an entry.
> * Multiple iterations may be in progress at the same time if none of them
> * adds or deletes hash entries.
>
> * @remark During an iteration it is safe to delete the current hash entry,
> * and to add entries.
> * Multiple iterations may be in progress at the same time if none of them
> * deletes hash entries.
>
> I.e. the remark should say what is guaranteed to be safe, not "you may do this but the results may be unpredictable".

If you send a patch against APR HEAD, one of us can commit the docfix
to APR.

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Received on Thu Sep 25 00:42:46 2003