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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Blocking protected ops (was: Tasks and C/C++ code)
Date: 1998/11/24
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Tom Moran wrote:
> 
> >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?

I checked the GLADE sources and it's a semaphore, so the protected call
itself will not block on gethostbyname.

Anyway, the question remains: is it legal for a protected body to call
some imported subprogram that could block (in the pthreads sense of the
term) ?

Does someone know why the rule 9.5.1(8-18) is there at all ?