diff --git a/libc/stdio/fileext.h b/libc/stdio/fileext.h
index 2d07043..b36a448 100644
--- a/libc/stdio/fileext.h
+++ b/libc/stdio/fileext.h
@@ -29,24 +29,41 @@
  * $Citrus$
  */
 
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include "wcio.h"
+
 /*
  * file extension
  */
 struct __sfileext {
 	struct	__sbuf _ub; /* ungetc buffer */
 	struct wchar_io_data _wcio;	/* wide char io status */
+	pthread_mutex_t _lock; /* file lock */
 };
 
+#define _FILEEXT_INITIALIZER  {{NULL,0},{0},PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER}
+
 #define _EXT(fp) ((struct __sfileext *)((fp)->_ext._base))
 #define _UB(fp) _EXT(fp)->_ub
+#define _FLOCK(fp)  _EXT(fp)->_lock
 
 #define _FILEEXT_INIT(fp) \
 do { \
 	_UB(fp)._base = NULL; \
 	_UB(fp)._size = 0; \
 	WCIO_INIT(fp); \
+	_FLOCK_INIT(fp); \
 } while (0)
 
+/* Helper macros to avoid a function call when you know that fp is not NULL.
+ * Notice that we keep _FLOCK_INIT() fast by slightly breaking our pthread
+ * encapsulation.
+ */
+#define _FLOCK_INIT(fp)    _FLOCK(fp).value = __PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INIT_VALUE
+#define _FLOCK_LOCK(fp)    pthread_mutex_lock(&_FLOCK(fp))
+#define _FLOCK_TRYLOCK(fp) pthread_mutex_trylock(&_FLOCK(fp))
+#define _FLOCK_UNLOCK(fp)  pthread_mutex_unlock(&_FLOCK(fp))
+
 #define _FILEEXT_SETUP(f, fext) \
 do { \
 	(f)->_ext._base = (unsigned char *)(fext); \
diff --git a/libc/stdio/findfp.c b/libc/stdio/findfp.c
index a659c87..76ed5ee 100644
--- a/libc/stdio/findfp.c
+++ b/libc/stdio/findfp.c
@@ -58,7 +58,12 @@
 static struct glue *lastglue = &uglue;
 _THREAD_PRIVATE_MUTEX(__sfp_mutex);
 
-static struct __sfileext __sFext[3];
+static struct __sfileext __sFext[3] = {
+	_FILEEXT_INITIALIZER,
+	_FILEEXT_INITIALIZER,
+	_FILEEXT_INITIALIZER,
+};
+
 FILE __sF[3] = {
 	std(__SRD, STDIN_FILENO),		/* stdin */
 	std(__SWR, STDOUT_FILENO),		/* stdout */
diff --git a/libc/stdio/flockfile.c b/libc/stdio/flockfile.c
index e8c74c5..368fb15 100644
--- a/libc/stdio/flockfile.c
+++ b/libc/stdio/flockfile.c
@@ -31,122 +31,23 @@
  * we can't use the OpenBSD implementation which uses kernel-specific
  * APIs not available on Linux.
  *
- * Ideally, this would be trivially implemented by adding a
- * pthread_mutex_t field to struct __sFILE as defined in
- * <stdio.h>.
- *
- * However, since we don't want to bring pthread into the mix
- * as well as change the size of a public API/ABI structure,
- * we're going to store the data out-of-band.
- *
- * we use a hash-table to map FILE* pointers to recursive mutexes
- * fclose() will call __fremovelock() defined below to remove
- * a pointer from the table.
+ * Instead, we use a pthread_mutex_t within the FILE* internal state.
+ * See fileext.h for details.
  *
  * the behaviour, if fclose() is called while the corresponding
  * file is locked is totally undefined.
  */
 #include <stdio.h>
-#include <pthread.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include "fileext.h"
 
-/* a node in the hash table */
-typedef struct FileLock {
-    struct FileLock*  next;
-    FILE*             file;
-    pthread_mutex_t   mutex;
-} FileLock;
-
-/* use a static hash table. We assume that we're not going to
- * lock a really large number of FILE* objects on an embedded
- * system.
- */
-#define  FILE_LOCK_BUCKETS  32
-
-typedef struct {
-    pthread_mutex_t   lock;
-    FileLock*         buckets[ FILE_LOCK_BUCKETS ];
-} LockTable;
-
-static LockTable*      _lockTable;
-static pthread_once_t  _lockTable_once = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT;
-
-static void
-lock_table_init( void )
-{
-    _lockTable = malloc(sizeof(*_lockTable));
-    if (_lockTable != NULL) {
-        pthread_mutex_init(&_lockTable->lock, NULL);
-        memset(_lockTable->buckets, 0, sizeof(_lockTable->buckets));
-    }
-}
-
-static LockTable*
-lock_table_lock( void )
-{
-    pthread_once( &_lockTable_once, lock_table_init );
-    pthread_mutex_lock( &_lockTable->lock );
-    return _lockTable;
-}
-
-static void
-lock_table_unlock( LockTable*  t )
-{
-    pthread_mutex_unlock( &t->lock );
-}
-
-static FileLock**
-lock_table_lookup( LockTable*  t, FILE*  f )
-{
-    uint32_t    hash = (uint32_t)(void*)f;
-    FileLock**  pnode;
-
-    hash = (hash >> 2) ^ (hash << 17);
-    pnode = &t->buckets[hash % FILE_LOCK_BUCKETS];
-    for (;;) {
-        FileLock*  node = *pnode;
-        if (node == NULL || node->file == f)
-            break;
-        pnode = &node->next;
-    }
-    return pnode;
-}
 
 void
 flockfile(FILE * fp)
 {
-    LockTable*  t = lock_table_lock();
-
-    if (t != NULL) {
-        FileLock**  lookup = lock_table_lookup(t, fp);
-        FileLock*   lock   = *lookup;
-
-        if (lock == NULL) {
-            pthread_mutexattr_t  attr;
-
-            /* create a new node in the hash table */
-            lock = malloc(sizeof(*lock));
-            if (lock == NULL) {
-                lock_table_unlock(t);
-                return;
-            }
-            lock->next        = NULL;
-            lock->file        = fp;
-
-            pthread_mutexattr_init(&attr);
-            pthread_mutexattr_settype(&attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE);
-            pthread_mutex_init( &lock->mutex, &attr );
-
-            *lookup           = lock;
-        }
-        lock_table_unlock(t);
-
-        /* we assume that another thread didn't destroy 'lock'
-        * by calling fclose() on the FILE*. This can happen if
-        * the client is *really* buggy, but we don't care about
-        * such code here.
-        */
-        pthread_mutex_lock(&lock->mutex);
+    if (fp != NULL) {
+        _FLOCK_LOCK(fp);
     }
 }
 
@@ -154,21 +55,13 @@
 int
 ftrylockfile(FILE *fp)
 {
-    int         ret = -1;
-    LockTable*  t   = lock_table_lock();
+    /* The specification for ftrylockfile() says it returns 0 on success,
+     * or non-zero on error. So return an errno code directly on error.
+     */
+    int  ret = EINVAL;
 
-    if (t != NULL) {
-        FileLock**  lookup = lock_table_lookup(t, fp);
-        FileLock*   lock   = *lookup;
-
-        lock_table_unlock(t);
-
-        /* see above comment about why we assume that 'lock' can
-        * be accessed from here
-        */
-        if (lock != NULL && !pthread_mutex_trylock(&lock->mutex)) {
-            ret = 0;  /* signal success */
-        }
+    if (fp != NULL) {
+        ret = _FLOCK_TRYLOCK(fp);
     }
     return ret;
 }
@@ -176,35 +69,7 @@
 void
 funlockfile(FILE * fp)
 {
-    LockTable*  t = lock_table_lock();
-
-    if (t != NULL) {
-        FileLock**  lookup = lock_table_lookup(t, fp);
-        FileLock*   lock   = *lookup;
-
-        if (lock != NULL)
-            pthread_mutex_unlock(&lock->mutex);
-
-        lock_table_unlock(t);
-    }
-}
-
-
-/* called from fclose() to remove the file lock */
-__LIBC_HIDDEN__ void
-__fremovelock(FILE*  fp)
-{
-    LockTable*  t = lock_table_lock();
-
-    if (t != NULL) {
-        FileLock**  lookup = lock_table_lookup(t, fp);
-        FileLock*   lock   = *lookup;
-
-        if (lock != NULL) {
-            *lookup   = lock->next;
-            lock->file = NULL;
-        }
-        lock_table_unlock(t);
-        free(lock);
+    if (fp != NULL) {
+        _FLOCK_UNLOCK(fp);
     }
 }