On Jun 13, Bruce Perens wrote > Regarding how to make your library re-entrant, you must have no global or > static variables that are not protected by mutexes. In general it is easy > to deal with this by passing your state structure as a pointer argument to > all of your functions rather than by using a global variable.
Although how well this interacts with dynamically-loaded shared libraries is anyone's guess; I suspect I may have to go the global-variable route myself, which is why I was asking for examples/docs. > I don't know what state S-Lang is in with this respect - that might be > your first concern. Without having looked at the source, I do know that it uses a fair few global variables for various things, unfortunately. Cheers, &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- Your face! I'll never see you this way again. I captured it so perfectly, as if I knew you'd disappear away. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
