From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d576ceec8fa95166 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "DuckE" Subject: Re: tasks, simple question Date: 1999/11/15 Message-ID: <3830d134.0@news.pacifier.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 549121873 References: <382FC705.29121528@interact.net.au> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Trace: 15 Nov 1999 19:36:20 PST, 216.65.140.185 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The simplest example I can think of is printing. If you're in a word processor and select "print", without tasking you might be forced for the printout to complete before continuing your work. With tasking you can continue working while your document prints. If you're document is printing while you continue editing, what happens to that part of the document you're editing? Will it show the most recent changes? Or will it print the last copy of the document you saved? This is an example of concurrency concerns, that is the things you must be concerned with when operations are being performed on the same data by multiple tasks. I hope this helps, SteveD G wrote in message news:382FC705.29121528@interact.net.au... > I think I have a basic understanding of what is going on with tasks. > > What I am wondering is where and when one would use them. > > What sort of role they play, so to say. What sort of things one > would use them for. > > Or are such things not at all defined and down to personal pref. ? > I wonder because if someone can tell me the sort of places these things > are used, then > I may understand them better. > > :-) > -G >