ATC and OS calls

[Thomas Handler <th@umundum.vol.at>]

Hi!

I had a look to some Ada books covering Ada's tasking capabilities. 
Regarding ATC I had an implementation idea for some sort of problem and
made some tests to check wether my idea will work or not, since I had no
idea how GNAT will implement ATC and how the implementation interacts
with OS calls (select() on Intel-Linux in this case).

So I did a simple loop containing a 

	select
	  delay 1.0;
	then abort
	  -- preparing FD set
	  -- calling select
	end select;

After running for a while the test application stopped with a GPF and
the register contents and from that moment on no further select calls
seemed to work on the system, so a reboot was necessary.

Since every doc I have studied so far doesn't tell me much about ATC it
seems clear to me that aborting a call that allocates some memory
dynamic via ATC will cause troubles.

Any comments from the pros?

Thomas Handler