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Subject: Re: assigning priority to task
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Basically, priorities have only effect on tasks contending for the processor.

Ada 83 RM says someting like: If two tasks are runnable at the same time on a processor, it cannot be the case that the lower priority task executes while the higher one does not... Priorities should only be used for fine-tuning.

Since then, this basic rule has not changed, but has been modified by the presence of multiprocessors.

So be careful.