Being a person who somehow has taken a liking to premature optimisation, my knee-jerk reaction to
locking in std handles was preamble resembling following snippet:
let stdout = stdout();
let lstdout = stdout.lock();
let stdin = stdin();
let lstdin = stdin.lock();
and then reading from the locked handle like this:
let mut letter = [0; 1];
lstdin.read(&mut letter).unwrap();
As it is now this code will deadlock because the `read` method attempts to lock stdout as well!
r? @alexcrichton
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Either way, I find flushing stdout when stdin is used debatable. I believe people who write prompts should take care to flush stdout when necessary themselves.
Another idea: Would be cool if locks on std handles would be taken for a thread, rather than a handle, so given preamble (first code snippet)
stdin.lock()
or more generally
stdin.read(…)
worked fine. I.e. if more than a single lock are all taken inside the same thread, it would work, though not sure if our synchronisation primitives are expressive enough to make it possible.
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