[mythtv] [patch] thread safe verbose macro v4
Daniel Thor Kristjansson
danielk at mrl.nyu.edu
Tue Mar 1 02:23:40 UTC 2005
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, thor wrote:
]On Monday 28 February 2005 08:57 pm, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
] I had always assumed that iostream was threadsafe. Is that not the case?
Yes and no, it won't crash, but the characters of
two simultaneous string writes will overlap.
i.e.
Thread 1: cout<<"ABC";
Thread 2: cout<<"123"
might give you
A1BC23
1AB2C3
A1B23C
etc, etc
-- Daniel
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