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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Nov 11, 2014 · In UNIX systems we know malloc() is a non-reentrant function (system call). Why is that? Similarly, printf() also is said to be non-reentrant; why? I know the definition of re …