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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Tasking differences
Date: 2000/07/12
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In article <8kgkdp$kjv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <8kff0n$nnu$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>
> > Hmm. That makes perfect sense, and would fully explain the
> > behavior. Most Ada runtimes have a little problem where
> > Ada.Text_IO is not thread-safe.
>
> That's misleading. Ada.Text_IO is required to be thread safe,
> and it would be surprising if it were not the case. Probably
> what you are referring to is having two tasks use Ada.Text_IO
> *on the same file* without any protection, but that's clearly

Well, yes. I was actually referring to the particular call he was
making, which was a use of Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (the version that does
*not* take a file as a parameter). It should have been clear from the
context, but out of context I'll admit its a misleading statement.
Sorry.

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