From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Is Text_IO.Put_Line() thread-safe?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:22:55 +0200
Date: 2012-06-15T09:22:55+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4smqkt4783bt.7xvwmlmb0lej$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4fdac8dc$0$9508$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:32:14 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 14.06.12 23:37, Robert A Duff wrote:
>> Yes, there are several things wrong with the design of Text_IO,
>> and this is one of them. But it's not too hard to work around it.
>
> But surely I/O routines in general should not be thread safe
> and thus have to drag in everything required to achieve thread
> safety?
The lower-level I/O yes.
The higher-level I/O should be transaction-oriented in order to be
task-safe.
I disagree with Robert: 1) Transactions would be difficult to do taking
into account language problems with MI and MD; 2) I don't consider Text_IO
design wrong.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-14 12:53 Is Text_IO.Put_Line() thread-safe? awdorrin
2012-06-14 13:49 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-14 14:35 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-14 14:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-14 14:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-14 16:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-14 18:34 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-21 19:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-14 18:29 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-21 19:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-14 21:14 ` tmoran
2012-06-14 14:42 ` awdorrin
2012-06-14 18:24 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-14 20:37 ` awdorrin
2012-06-14 21:37 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-15 5:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-15 7:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-06-15 21:32 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-16 7:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-15 21:27 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-14 18:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-14 20:50 ` awdorrin
2012-06-14 21:41 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-15 12:39 ` awdorrin
2012-06-14 22:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-14 22:40 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-14 23:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-15 5:04 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-15 5:41 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-21 19:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-16 2:00 ` BrianG
2012-06-16 6:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-16 6:49 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-16 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-16 8:03 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-16 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-21 19:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-16 7:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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