What exactly is the common thread between the six points mentioned that I should keep in mind while checking my code for reentrant capabilities? Also, Are all recursive functions reentrant? Are all …

May 13, 2009 · Reentrant functions come under the category of thread-safe functions. The difference between thread-safe functions and reentrant functions is reentrant functions must operate on only …

Dec 15, 2015 · A reentrant lock is one where a process can claim the lock multiple times without blocking on itself. It's useful in situations where it's not easy to keep track of whether you've already …

Jan 13, 2016 · What exactly is a reentrant function?. If you don't understand it then you need to tell us precisely what you don't understand. Otherwise we can't really target any new/different way of …

May 12, 2013 · With a reentrant lock / locking mechanism, the attempt to acquire the same lock will succeed, and will increment an internal counter belonging to the lock. The lock will only be released …

Nov 4, 2008 · In C I know about the recursive function but I heard about the re-entrant function.What is that? And whats the difference between them?

May 14, 2013 · Re-entrant means that the function can be interrupted at any point, and be able to correctly finish executing after the interruption, even in cases when the same function is called one or …

Apr 4, 2015 · which compiling a multithreaded program we use gcc like below: gcc -lpthread -D_REENTRANT -o someprogram someprogram.c what exactly is the flag -D_REENTRANT doing …

Jul 22, 2009 · A reentrant kernel provides better performance because there is no contention for the kernel. A kernel that is not reentrant needs to use a lock to make sure that no two processes are …

Jun 5, 2015 · Reentrancy have more to do if you could call a function from different contexts without disturbing another call from another context. Take for example the strtok function. It typically contains …