• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (19/20) Sep 09 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13443

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13443

          Issue ID: 13443
           Summary: stdin/stdout/stderr should be accessible from  safe
                    code
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: safe
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Phobos
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: thecybershadow gmail.com

Currently, the standard File variables in std.stdio are not accessible from
 safe code, because they are declared as __gshared.

From looking at the code, it looks like they are indeed not thread-safe - the

reference counter is not incremented/decremented atomically.

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