From: "aq" <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx> > Anybody please explain to me, in the context below, what "reentrant" means? It is a useful, memory-saving technique used for multiprogrammed, time-sharing systems. Reentrant functions are functions that allow multiple concurrent invocations of a single program(by different users) that do not interfere with each other. Share the code, but not the data. Conditions to be reentrant: It uses all shared variables in an atomic way, unless each is allocated to a specific instance of the function. It does not call non-reentrant functions. It does not use the hardware in a non-atomic way. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
