On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:45 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: > Paul Martz wrote on Friday, November 30, 2007 1:28 PM: > > 1. I always understood "reentrant" to refer to code or an object that > > could be executed safely by multiple threads or processes. However, > > the ReentrantMutex would only be used for code that is safe for the > > _same_ thread or process to execute concurrently, thus my confusion. > > Is the name "reentrant" appropriate here? > > I believe the standard term is "recursive".
I understand "recursive" to be a description applied to a function that can safely call itself from within itself? (i.e., lots of XML-parsing libraries abuse this hardcore...) _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
