From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,534dd301375921ac X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.220.230 with SMTP id pz6mr3728289pbc.3.1339710103371; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni51290pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is Text_IO.Put_Line() thread-safe? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:41:42 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <93201f1a-d668-485e-83b4-492bc283f36e@googlegroups.com> <3fff1269-06f5-47a2-bc10-c2145b3a297d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1339710102 9905 192.74.137.71 (14 Jun 2012 21:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:41:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/mWjp0Qy/MuvSP3S24DZRoJa+cI= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2012-06-14T17:41:42-04:00 List-Id: awdorrin writes: > It is a mess, and if I could re-design the whole thing, I > would. Unfortunately I'm being told 'make it work' and that since the > application has been used for 25+ years on the other platforms that > there isn't anything wrong with the design. Sounds painful. Perhaps you should try making the new system behave as much like the old one as possible. For example, limit it to a single processor (which was probably the case 25 years ago). - Bob