[Pythonmac-SIG] An Odd Question...
Richard Gordon
maccgi@bellsouth.net
Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:31:16 -0400
At 14:14 +0200 7/8/1999, Jack Jansen wrote:
>Minotaur looks pretty neat! Maybe someone could pick it up and see how much
>work a Mac port would be? Jean Claude mentioned a couple of times that there
>shouldn't be any real problems...
I noticed something in the description that I don't understand, viz.:
"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.
Thanks.
Richard Gordon
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