Re: Running a background task

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On May 16, 8:25 am, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> No.  If Send_Status_Req is in a loop, then it will call it in a loop.
> This is the same whether or not the loop is inside the accept or
> outside of it.  The difference is that if it's inside the accept, it
> will hold up the task (which could be the main program, technically
> the "environment task") calling the entry being accepted, and if it's
> not inside the accept, it won't; but other than that, the behavior
> will be the same either way.  I'm not clear on why you'd be confused
> about this (i.e. why you think it would call Send_Status_Req only
> once)---I suspect you may have some misconception about how tasks
> work, but I can't think what it might be, so if this is still
> confusing to you, you may need to explain a little more clearly what
> you're confused about, so that we can help clear up whatever
> misunderstanding you may have.

Please note that I wrote all this before I saw your latest post where
you had gotten things to work.  So it looks like you've gotten
everything figured out now---great!

                                    -- Adam