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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: [newbie question] tasks and protected types
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:54:17 +0200
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> If calls to Ada.Text_IO _are_ potentially blocking operations, that
> means that one has to move the calls to a task.  But from a logical
> point of view, using a protected object seems like the right way to do
> it.

True. In fact I was doing just the same when I was warned for the first 
time about this.

Later I think it was Mr. Dewar who pointed that Gnat Text_IO is thread 
safe, but don't mark my words.

Kind regards,

A. Mosteo.