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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a555752235c318a9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!skynet.be!skynet.be!newspost001!tjb!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:16:27 +0100 From: Adrien Plisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, fr-be, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: i'm going crazy with task References: <1101830171.387036.135810@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <41ad991b$0$25066$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: 3fba516a.news.skynet.be X-Trace: 1101895963 news.skynet.be 25066 80.201.136.241:4918 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6686 Date: 2004-12-01T11:16:27+01:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > If I understand this description of the situation, I fear you > have bigger problems ahead. Ada "task"s are ALREADY handled by the > run-time task scheduler. I don't know how you'd implement a scheduler on > top of (or in place of) that scheduler... he may be talking about a task scheduler ala Windows, that is a piece of software whose goal is to launch some user specified actions at the occurence of some event: time, boot, ... a unix equivalent is crond. -- rien