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- From: WULF@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer)
- Subject: Re: re-entrant programs
- In-Reply-To: bazyar@teal.csn.org's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:17:27 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:19:50 GMT
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- <bazyar.724922247@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org writes:
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- > 're-entrant' means that more than one process may execute the program
- > at the same time. Usually the term is applied only to subroutines
- > of a program.. recursive subroutines are reentrant, and that should
- > give us a starting point.
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- Recursive routines are not necessarily reentrant unless they work only on
- variables dynamically allocated to every task.
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