[Pythonmac-SIG] An Odd Question...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@strout.net
Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:05:57 -0700
At 6:31 AM -0700 07/08/99, Richard Gordon wrote:
>"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?
The current MacOS doesn't use threads (well, almost never -- it can if you
jump through a lot of hoops). So thread safety is utterly irrelevant on
the Mac. "re-entrant" is basically just another term for thread-safe.
Cheers,
-- Joe
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