[Pythonmac-SIG] An Odd Question...

[Jack Jansen]

> "Minotaur uses some global data; it's not yet re-entrant / 
> thread-safe. As a matter of fact, Minotaur is still totally ignorant 
> of threads."
> 
> I know what threads are and I suspect I know what thread-safe means, 
> but what is "re-entrant" and to what extent would something that was 
> re-entrant / thread-safe under unix retain those qualities when 
> ported to the current MacOS? Just curious.

Well, MacPython doesn't have threads yet, so that problem is pretty much 
solved:-) And reentrancy probably means here that you can't use Minotaur to 
call from Python to TCL and then back to Python (or something else).
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