Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:20 PM 5/3/2001 -0400, Benjamin Sugars wrote:
>On Thu, 3 May 2001, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>
> > I hope you're not saying designing things badly is unavoidable because
> > bad design already exists elsewhere in the code.  :-)
>
>:-) Rather that your hands might be tied when certain things are beyond
>your control.  Callouts to non-reentrant libraries, for instance, did not
>seem to be protected by your scheme.
>
>But perhaps the necessary precautions already exist in the core by virtue
>of 5.005 threads?

Nope. Callouts to non-reentrant libraries are a Bad Thing...


                                        Dan

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