In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/21/2006
at 10:19 AM, "Jeffrey D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Mainframers tend to use the word "reentrant" to mean
>a program that is concurrently executable by multiple
>units of work and it does not modify itself at all (or
>may modify itself in a way that is not detectable by
>the multiple units of work that are concurrently executing the
>program).
That's refreshable. Reentrant means that you get correct results when
running concurrent copies, which typically requires some sort of
serialization.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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