""Tom Marchant"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:44:05 -0800, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm sorry - I hate to start up this "reentrant" thing again but would
> anyone > >(everyone? <g>) like to suggest a term to describe a program that is > >technically reentrant but that cannot be multi-tasked in a single jobstep > >due to some hard-coded externality? This is not just an excuse to re-start > a > >semantics war. I'm writing documentation and would like to apply the > correct > >term to the IBM FTP client, which has the RENT bit set but which uses the > >hard-coded DD names INPUT and OUTPUT and therefore effectively cannot be > >multi-tasked in a single jobstep or region. > > > > I'd call it "serially reusable," or simply not discribe it's > reusability. > > IMHO, it should have been coded with an ENQ or some other suitable > method of serializing it's use it so that there would be no > conflicts. > > -- > Tom Marchant I'd say, it is simply *not* reentrant and has the RENT bit set incorrectly. Anyone can set the RENT bit on his module, but that does not mean it is coded reentrant, which apparently is also true for this code. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
