Re: Designing Timers using Ada.Real_Time.Timing_Events package

["Anh Vo" <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>]

>> Regarding deadlock in general, if a deadlock occurs in one task, should
>> other tasks continue to operate and the main program should not hang?
>
>      As I understand the terms, pretty much by definition, a deadlock
> must involve more than one task... And the main program, also by
> definition, could be that task. While there may be other cases, the
> simple definition for a deadlock is for two or more concurrent threads
> of control to be blocked on mutual resources:
>
>        get_A                                   get_B
>        get_B (block)                   get_A (block)   (deadlock)
>        release_B                               release_A
>        release_A                               release_B
>
>        A more real-world situation could have many levels of calls before
> encountering blocking possibilities.

Does it mean that as long as the main task is not involved in the
deadlock, the main program should operate, not hung?

AV