Re: Mutex in ostream operator - doesn't work

Good evening dear newsgroup (and sorry for cross-posting with .threads),

I am trying to synchronize output to ostreams such as cout and cerr for
threaded logging purposes. And it doesn't seem to work. The blurb of code
below is supposed to do following :

ostream& operator <<(ostream& out, StreamLocker& SL)
{

  if (not_locked)
  {
    pthread_mutex_lock(this_lock);
    not_lock = false;
   }
  else // if locked
  {
   pthread_mutex_unlock(this_lock);
   not_lock = true;
  }

  return out;
}

Rest of code is debugging messages and attempts to get it to work with
flush() et al. Nothing works; output is as mingled as it could be. Please
help me kindly.

Thank you,
Not A Coder.
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#include <iostream>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>

using namespace std;

    static pthread_mutex_t stderr_lock;
    static pthread_mutex_t stdout_lock;

    class StreamLocker
    {
    public:
        bool locked;
        pthread_mutex_t my_lock;
        StreamLocker();
        void InitLock(pthread_mutex_t mutex_lock);
        friend ostream& operator<<(ostream& out, StreamLocker &sl);
    };

    static StreamLocker SL;

  StreamLocker::StreamLocker()
    {
        cout << "Creating StreamLocker" << endl;
        this->locked = false;
        pthread_mutex_init(&my_lock, NULL);
        pthread_mutex_init(&stderr_lock, NULL);
        pthread_mutex_init(&stdout_lock, NULL);
        cout << "Created StreamLocker" << endl;
    }

    ostream& operator <<(ostream& out, StreamLocker &sl)
    {
        if (!sl.locked)
        {
            if (out == cerr)
            {
                out << "LK ER";
                pthread_mutex_lock(&stderr_lock);
            }
            else if (out == cout)
            {
                out.flush();
                out << "*LK OU*";
                if ( pthread_mutex_lock(&stdout_lock) != 0 )
                 perror("Couldn't obtain lock");
            }
            else
            {
                out << "LK SE";
                pthread_mutex_lock( &(sl.my_lock) );
            }
        }
        else
        {
            out.flush();
            if (out == cerr)
            {
                out << "ULK ER";
                pthread_mutex_unlock(&stderr_lock);
            }
            else if (out == cout)
            {
                out << "*ULK OU*";
                if ( pthread_mutex_unlock(&stdout_lock) != 0 )
                 perror("Couldn't unlock");
            }
            else
            {
                out << "ULK SE";
                pthread_mutex_unlock(& (sl.my_lock)) ;
            }
        }
        sl.locked = !sl.locked;
        // out.flush();
        return out;
    }

    void StreamLocker::InitLock(pthread_mutex_t mutex_lock)
    {
        pthread_mutex_init(&mutex_lock, NULL);
    }

typedef void* (*thread_body) (void*) ;

template<int N>
void* Thread_Body(void* arg)
{
 unsigned long cycle = 1;
 while ( ++cycle > 0)
 {
  cout << SL ;
  cout << "Thread ## " << N << " in cycle ## " << cycle << " speaking with
id " << pthread_self() << endl ;
  cout << SL;
  if ( (random() % 111)==0 )
   sleep( 1 );
 }
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  pthread_attr_t thread_attr;
  pthread_attr_init(&thread_attr);
  pthread_t thread_id;

  thread_body tb_1 = Thread_Body<1>, tb_2 = Thread_Body<2> , tb_3 =
Thread_Body<3>;

  pthread_create(&thread_id, &thread_attr, tb_1, NULL);
  pthread_create(&thread_id, &thread_attr, tb_2, NULL);
  pthread_create(&thread_id, &thread_attr, tb_1, NULL);
  pthread_create(&thread_id, &thread_attr, tb_3, NULL);
  pthread_create(&thread_id, &thread_attr, tb_2, NULL);
  pthread_create(&thread_id, &thread_attr, Thread_Body<7>, NULL);

  pthread_join(thread_id, NULL);
}