From 4f6c874c108871a1ab4c063ab4a8de2775f7a01d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zahary Karadjov <zahary@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 19:32:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a helper for initializing fsStdOut in threads

---
 faststreams/stdout.nim | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/faststreams/stdout.nim b/faststreams/stdout.nim
index beaccdd..d57aa5f 100644
--- a/faststreams/stdout.nim
+++ b/faststreams/stdout.nim
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 import
   outputs
 
-let fsStdOut* {.threadvar.} = fileOutput(system.stdout)
+var fsStdOut* {.threadvar.}: OutputStream
+
+proc initFsStdOut* =
+  ## This proc must be called in each thread where
+  ## the `fsStdOut` variable will be used.
+  if fsStdOut == nil:
+    fsStdOut = fileOutput(system.stdout)
+
+initFsStdOut()