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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 using
> globals 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.