Hello John, Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 5:55:19 AM, you wrote:
In my survey of when 'reentrant concurrent' was needed, I looked at all the standard libraries and didn't find anywhere it was actually needed. Are there some compelling examples of when it is really needed in a setting that doesn't have OS threads to begin with?
may be i can help? :) i'm not sure that i understood you properly, but my own compression program uses several compression algorithms, written in C, in parallel - i.e. output from first algorithm is piped to the second and so on. if this is not enough - all these algorithms are executed via one function, which receives algorithm name and input/output routines, so i run in parallel, for example: compress "words" read_func1 write_func1 and compress "ppm" read_func2 write_func2 -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com