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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
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- Subject: Re: reentrant
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:35:25 GMT
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- >> >Much of the *C* run-time in *any* language is non-reentrant,
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- The OS world is moving towards multithreading, that is, multiple
- threads of execution sharing a single address space. Nor am I giving
- some kind of advance warning: this is in the field.
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- Re-entrant libraries are necessary to make this work, so, that's out
- there too. Although I admit that the last time I multithreaded
- something, I was careful to have an "X" thread to do all the
- X-windows calls.
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- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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