Re: Thread Safe Iostreams Patch

[Federico Montesino Pouzols]

> Hello all. I have been hacking away at thread-safe iostreams and am
> including a patch containing that work. At first I attempted to do
> recursive locking but ran into some nice deadlock problems :(. So I
> opted to lock the stream and buffer on operator<< calls and release at
> the end of these calls. This does not give as nice output as I would
> like and threads can get preempted between operator<< calls. Also,
> there's a bunch of stuff that needs finishing. So baically this is just
> a preliminary thing for you to look at, comment on, etc. If
> anyone has a nice strategy on how to d recursive locking I am all
> ears, else I will just have to give it more thought and figure
> something out for myself.

        This looks very interesting, and it even comes with a test app
:). I guess that now that we have a "stable" branch (RELEASE1) in CVS,
this patch could be quickly added to HEAD so that people can start to
play with it

> 
> Enjoy. :)
> Dan
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