Re: Is ESQL/C thread-reentrant ?

Posted in 1996

Philip Walden — 7 Feb 1996 16:33:32 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Thomas Espell <thomas.espell@ost.fdata.se> wrote: >Does anyone know if the Informix ESQL/C code is thread-reentrant. > No, mostly. The esql preprocessor adds static structures and/or pointers to you C code. By definition static data makes code non-reentrant. You would have to wrap all your esql code in mutexes to make it safe. However I hear (rumor) that 7.2 (or 7.1+) will allow threaded clients. Phil -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Walden Hewlett Packard Product Generation Information Systems 1501 Page Mill Road, M/S 4U-6 Palo Alto, CA 94304 (415) 857-3899 FAX (415) 857-8234 --------------------------------------------------------------------------