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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d5977aa20216d24a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-02 12:58:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!news.tele.dk!148.122.208.68!news2.oke.nextra.no!nextra.com!news1.oke.nextra.no.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Frank" From: "Frank" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <2OHx6.4154$NR.335287@news3.oke.nextra.no> Subject: Re: Ada Tasks vs Linux processes X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: <4R4y6.3229$R6.68334@news1.oke.nextra.no> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:57:44 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.67.135.93 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@nextra.no X-Trace: news1.oke.nextra.no 986241472 130.67.135.93 (Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:57:52 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:57:52 MET DST Organization: Nextra Public Access Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6373 Date: 2001-04-02T21:57:44+02:00 List-Id: Hi! It seems to me (after some more searching in select -statement variations) that the I should use the construction select...or.._else_ to achieve what I intended. But this disussion brings another question to my mind; from some e-threads I read here I have got the impression that I _have_ to perform delay n; in the code so that all tasks get a slice of the execution (perhaps this goes for OS or CPU that does not handle HW multitasking or something?) Is this a true, or can I assume that Ada (and/or the OS it is running in) slices executions on every platform it is implemented? I can understand that a delay n; makes good sense if a task does not have to execute continously and a delay therefore can give execution slices to other tasks instead. Frank