[fpc-devel] StdOut capture for FPC RTL

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be said:
>>>> Michael.
>>> You can write a "classic" pascal textfile device driver and assign  directly
>>> to the global TEXT variables Input, Output and ErrOutput.
>>> Don't know is this is threadsafe, though.
>>
>> No, it will not be thread-safe. You'll have to do it over and over again for
>> each thread.
>
> Just curious:Why not? I thought it was safe if you flushed before you created threads?

Writing to the files is thread-safe, but in new threads, the file variables
are initialized from their initial main thread values, i.e. the ones without
the recapturing.

Unless I missed something ?

Michael.