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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: vtkMultiProcessLog.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2001/10/11 13:37:59 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.4 $


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// .NAME vtkMultiProcessLog - Manages logs for multiple threads/processes.
// .SECTION Description
// Needs to be thread safe in the future (vtkTimerLog is not).

#ifndef __vtkMultiProcessLog_h
#define __vtkMultiProcessLog_h


#include "vtkObject.h"
#include "vtkThreadSafeLog.h"


#define VTK_MULTI_PROCESS_LOG_MAX 1000

class VTK_PARALLEL_EXPORT vtkMultiProcessLog : public vtkObject
{
public:
  static vtkMultiProcessLog *New();
  const char *GetClassName() {return "vtkMultiProcessLog";};

  // Description:
  // I want all the events in one process to share a log.
  // Note: Each process must set its own log.
  // Since I cannot initialize the array in a thread safe manner,
  // the logs are not reference counted.
  static void SetTimerLog(vtkThreadSafeLog *log);
  static vtkThreadSafeLog *GetTimerLog();

  // Decription:
  // Dumps logs sequentially into a file.  
  // Each process should call this.
  static void DumpLog(char *filename);

protected:

  vtkMultiProcessLog() {}; //insure constructur/destructor protected
  ~vtkMultiProcessLog() {};

private:
  vtkMultiProcessLog(const vtkMultiProcessLog&);  // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkMultiProcessLog&);  // Not implemented.
};



#endif
