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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Tasks and C/C++ code.
Date: 1998/11/23
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>Anyway I have seen gethostbyname protected by a protected object (I
>think it is in GLADE). So it does work.
  Does the call to gethostbyname occur inside a protected procedure,
even though it blocks, or is it controlled by a semaphore or something
that is a protected object?  eg
procedure Get_Host_By_Name(...) is
  Grab : gethostbyname_grabber;
begin
  gethostbyname(....);
end Get_Host_By_Name;
  where the controlled type gethostbyname_grabber has an Initialize
that calls a guarded entry, and thus waits for the guard to allow it
in.