how to set it without writing a text driver plugin?
There was something like SetInOutRes for delphi in some unit.
Is global inoutres a threadvar, btw? Safe to set it directly as a global variable (eek.. should there be some function?) The docs say that it is "read only".
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/inoutres.html
Can this rule be broken in special cases..
p.s. I am working on a operating system file locking solution that plugs right into the regular Text or TextFile records using fmShareDenyNone on windows and using fpFlock on windows. I don't want to write my own text driver to do this if I don't have to, and just use a "cast" for now with my own special reset/assign calls. It's almost reinventing my own text driver but not needed yet. I want to set the inoutres based on some fpFlock and FileCreate(,fmsharedenynone) error results. But eventually i may just write my own text driver. All this will be available to the fpc community as a file sharing unit or text driver plugin btw. I am sick of not having file sharing/locking for the standard writeln Text handles.