Good point.  I meant thread-safe, not re-entrant.

Doug

Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:34 -0800, Doug Cutting wrote:
>
>>It's usually pretty easy to replace fields that must be synchronized
>>with ThreadLocals in order to make a class re-entrant.  Perhaps we
>>should do this to RegexURLFilter?
>
>
> Nitpick --- as far as I know, ThreadLocals don't make things re-entrant,
> only thread-safe, which is a strictly weaker property.  RegexURLFilter
> probably doesn't need to be re-entrant, because it's not very likely
> that it's going to call some client-provided code in the middle of
> filtering a URL and have that client-provided code call RegexURLFilter
> again --- right?
>
> I'd hate to have to argue with someone who thinks ThreadLocals make
> things re-entrant in some context where re-entrancy matters, having
> gotten the idea from a trusted source.
>
>
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