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From: tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com>
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Subject: task abortion
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I want to be able to abort a task if it has not responded for a while,
and then start a new one in its stead.

I have a pointer going to the concerned task.

Each task has a 'stop accept' in its rendezvous which forces it out of
its loop so that it ends, but if the task has frozen for some reason
then I want to abort.

I would be interested how to do this and folks strategies for keeping
on top of tasks