Patch: PrintStream - Fix PR 11778

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Sunday, Aug 10, 2003, at 17:29 Pacific/Auckland, Tom Tromey wrote:

>>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@mckinlay.net.nz> writes:
>
> Bryce> I'm not entirely happy with our current PrintStream
> Bryce> implementation - there are several layers of indirection and
> Bryce> too much synchronization going on. The old code was better.
>
> I think we ought to revert (but preserving the javadoc).  One
> additional reason is that we have a Mauve regression with the new
> code, since a subclass can no longer change the filtered stream by
> setting the `out' field.

OK, agreed. I'll see if I can get to this soon if nobody beats me to it.

Regards

Bryce.