Re: reentrantcy?
Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> writes:
> The state of a global variable in one program does not effect the state
> of the same global variable in another program that links the same
> shared library. Both programs have seperate copies of static or global
> writable varriables of the shared library.
That's correct.
> Unless the programmer takes special action to force only one copy.
That can only be done within a single program that's multithreaded (unless
by "special action" you mean things like System V shared memory segments
or something similar that's rather more than just normal static or global
variables).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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