Thread Context

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Subject: Thread Context
From: "Sikandar Khan" <sikandar032@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:51:44 +0530
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Sorry for the simple question first.

What do you mean by the statement "This function may only be called from thread context. ". What are the precautions you have

to take while accessing the function from thread context .