Re: rendez-vous underlying mechanism

[Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>]

Kevin Cline wrote:

> "Bozo" <gri_nob@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<a7pk89$kj4$1@bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com>...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough.
> > I don't use ADA at the moment but I was a brave ADA programmer once.
> > I use C at the moment and I have a case where synchronous rendez-vous would
> > be better that traditional asynchrounous intertask communications.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea how to implement that in C with semaphores for
> > example ?
>
> This depends on the underlying OS.  If you are using pthreads,
> then see the manual entry for pthread_cond_wait.

This approach, of course, does not come close to the capabilities
already built-in to the Ada tasking model.    Ever heard of protected
types.

Richard Riehle