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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:42:00 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, bright@hotjobs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: question about re-entrancy.
Message-ID:  <199901052242.PAA10308@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <l03020903b2b842a7c47f@[194.32.164.2]>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990105223702.5112Y-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <199901052008.NAA09332@mt.sri.com> <199901052043.NAA09607@mt.sri.com> <l03020903b2b842a7c47f@[194.32.164.2]>

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> >A 'critical section of code' is a portion of the code that is accessing
> >a shared resource, which can be protected by using an object lock.
> 
> Erm, make that "...accessing *one or more* shared resources.", which is why
> it isn't the same thing as an object lock (except in the degenerate case).

Sure it is.  The object lock is used to 'protect' the shared resources.
This is multithreading/tasking 101 stuff, not rocket science.




Nate

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