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Re: Scheme binding for pthreads

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Knighten)
Wed Nov 1 20:24:24 1995

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 95 16:57:09 PST
From: Bob Knighten <knighten@SSD.intel.com>
To: gsstark@MIT.EDU
Cc: grib@cs.utexas.edu, beshers@cs.columbia.edu, pthreads@MIT.EDU,
        gel@cygnus.com
In-Reply-To: <199511012331.SAA08476@limekiller.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: knighten@SSD.intel.com (Bob Knighten)

Greg Stark writes:
  > 
  > . . .
  > reentrant != thread-safe
  > . . .
  > 

Curious.  The definition of "reentrant function" in the pthread standard is
exactly that reentrant = thread-safe!

-- Bob

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