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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown
Just to be my usual self. In general in CS, reentrant does not mean
non-self modifying. Many programs which do not modify themselves are
still not reentrant due to uncoordinated updating of shared
Answered in the Wikipedia article.
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Relation to thread safety
It must not be confused with thread-safe. A function can be thread-safe and
still not reentrant. For example, a function could be wrapped all around with a
mutex which avoids problems in multi-threading environments, and if that
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