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Date:	Fri, 11 Feb 2000 07:46:25 -0800
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Alain Magloire wrote:

> Well technically, according to what Eli already said, all system calls
> or any that is a DOS call in not reentrant.  And since the C lib was
> not implemented with MT in mind I suspect  a healthy chunck is usingglobals and
> static vars and handling signals etc ..

Yes agreed the further one looks the larger the issue gets.    The solution is a
form a
PC-supervisor which should serialise DOS access  so which there would be several
methods of implementation from s/w int chaining to replacing the system calls.

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