Re: Stream venting (long)

[robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com]

In article <76aor7$l4q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> The problem is when to release the lock. You can't
> acquire and release it after every call to the stream's
> Read or Write procedures, or you get interleaved data.
> You'd have to do it *manually* before the client's first
> top level 'Write call and after their last. That means
> the client has to do
> it. Yuk.

I already gave the (perfectly trivial) solution for this
problem. Associate a lock with the stream. When a stream
routine is called, claim the lock IF IT IS NOT ALREADY
CLAIMED by you! On completion, release the lock IF YOU
CLAIMED it on entry. This should be perfectly simple to
program, and completely solves your problem.

Less Yuk, more thinking :-)

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