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Document number: N3535

Date: 2013-03-06

C++ Stream Mutexes

by Lawrence Crowl

Excerpt:

At present, stream output operations guarantee that they will not produce race conditions, but do not guarantee that the effect will be sensible. Some form of external synchronization is required. Unfortunately, without a standard mechanism for synchronizing, independently developed software will be unable to synchronize.

 

This paper proposes a standard mechanism for locking streams...