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> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:27:08 -0700
> From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
> 
> Allocation of any other buffer/struct storage required as auto/dynamic
> should be sufficient to meet the reentrancy requirement. 

I don't see how allocation off the heap would solve reentrancy
problems.  Static storage is used there as simple solutions to
specific problems; replacing that with malloc'ed or automatic storage
could easily break the functionality.

Let's see your suggested implementations, and talk then specifically.

> I don't think we need to worry explicitly about threads within these
> functions. 

??? Then why do we need to have reentrant functions?  We could simply
provide a wrapper around the old code with the signature required by
Posix.