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Reputation:

Regarding reentrancy in C

If you have a function from a library f_func() and you know it's not reentrant, how would you use it in a threaded environment (POSIX)? You can't access the source code of the library.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 108

Answers (1)

Craig Estey
Craig Estey

Reputation: 33666

You can wrap it in a mutex. Here is an example usage:

pthread_mutex_t f_func_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;

pthread_mutex_lock(&f_func_mutex);

f_func();

// if f_func has "side effects", such as setting a global, you'll want to grab
// the value within the locked region:
int local = global_set_by_f_func;

pthread_mutex_unlock(&f_func_mutex);

Upvotes: 6

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