>>Reentrancy: A program that may be called by another while it is already in the calling stack;
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>PMJI Jim,
>It's been a long time since the theory classes but I thought 'reentrant' simply meant that more than one pointer (IP?) to a current program line is allowed, thus allowing more than one process to be using the same program code.
>Does that ring a bell?
>(Please tell me to go jump if i've missed the point here)

David,

It may be, I remember it as a program being able to be called from another while that program is in the calling stack, which would require what you said to allow it. Recursion, though, is a program directly calling itself, which also requires the ability you mentioned.