It is necessary to synchronize the Console.WriteLine calls?

[Naldo Alcalde]

Env: W2k, VS2005 Std

Hi everybody, I have a application with threads writing simultaneously
to the console with WriteLine. It is necessary the synchronization? I read
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.console(VS.80).aspx but I
had a deadlock in this function with 2 threads.

Thx in advance,

Naldo Alcalde H.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Env: W2k, VS2005 Std

Hi everybody, I have a application with threads writing simultaneously
to the console with WriteLine. It is necessary the synchronization? I read
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.console(VS.80).aspx but I
had a deadlock in this function with 2 threads.

I find it very unlikely that you actually had a deadlock using
System.Console. However, if you did, I'm sure MS would be very
interested in knowing about it, as it would probably be a bug, given
that the documentation says it's thread-safe.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

AFAIK it's thread safe. Almost all the articles,examples and code snipes you
find explaining multithreading you see Console.WriteLine() to show how the
different threads execute.

It could be a bug in 2.0 though.

An example will be interesting.

 

[Naldo Alcalde]

Sorry but that problem has not happenned again.

I find it very unlikely that you actually had a deadlock using
System.Console. However, if you did, I'm sure MS would be very
interested in knowing about it, as it would probably be a bug, given
that the documentation says it's thread-safe.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

 

[http://bobi100.skyblog.com]

excellent