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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,77efb4ab26922e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!spool-big1.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:40:39 -0400 From: "Peter C. Chapin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Blocking syscalls in Tasks References: <49dd14a0-73b9-44b4-a599-c86da7229c6c@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <49dd14a0-73b9-44b4-a599-c86da7229c6c@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <48de7e25$0$26371$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> Organization: SoVerNet (sover.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: 43fa7b42.news.sover.net X-Trace: DXC=\1AkBKeC3;]8KWeWNWL\ X-Complaints-To: abuse@sover.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2106 Date: 2008-09-27T14:40:39-04:00 List-Id: schwering@gmail.com wrote: > Are tasks commonly implemented using threads and does the language > specification request tasks to be in the user- or kernelspace? Or is > there a real difference between tasks and threads? My understanding is that this is left implementation defined. However, I'm sure those more expert than me will be able to give you a more definitive answer. Peter