Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:54 PM 5/3/2001 -0400, Benjamin Sugars wrote:
>On Thu, 3 May 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > Nope. Callouts to non-reentrant libraries are a Bad Thing...
>
>I suppose all is not lost if one knows which Perl functions can trigger
>such a callout, but that does fly in the face of Sarathy's responsibility
>model.

Well, presumably they'll only happen in XS code and the author will take 
proper steps to protect the library. (Okay, you can stop laughing now...)

Seriously, there's not a whole lot that perl itself can do about that, 
except perhaps single-thread calls to XS routines that aren't guaranteed to 
be threadsafe. And that needs to be done across interpreters for IThreads.

                                        Dan

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