From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Purposes of Ada.Task_Identification
Date: 1999/06/24
Date: 1999-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3772AF82.3259E5AC@averstar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ktva7$edh$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Jim Rogers wrote:
>
> I occasionally wonder what the intended purpose of the package
> Ada.Task_Identification is. ...
> Is the only real use of this package to determine if two different
> ID objects refer to the same task?
Task IDs are used in a number of other packages. For example,
the Dynamic_Priorities package relies on task IDs for setting
and getting the priority of another task. As others have pointed
out, task IDs are also useful for managing a heterogenous
collection of tasks by stuffing their task IDs into an array.
> --
> Jim Rogers
> Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
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-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
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1999-06-24 0:00 Purposes of Ada.Task_Identification Jim Rogers
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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