Re: Ada multi-threaded programs do not terminate under RedHat Linux

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> Ruben Stranders wrote:
> 
>> I've compiled it under RedHat Linux 9.0 with "gnatmake test.adb".
>> Unfortunately, the resulting program doesn't terminate. Instead of the
>> expected output:
>>
>> Starting
>> Finished
>> Test
>>
>> it only prints the first two lines. The body of the procedure "test"
>> is never called. I've tried this with several other programs and on
>> different machines (all with RedHat 9.0). Can anyone give me a
>> pointer?
> 
> 
> Usually, under Unixes such as Linux, when people try to run a program 
> called "test" nothing happens, since they're running a Unix utility 
> rather than their program. But if you're getting some of the output from 
> your program, I guess that's not the problem.

If in doubt, always do a ./test if the executable is in your
current directory (this is a good general practice anyway, to
avoid trojan horses). If the executable is in another directory,
then you can also invoke by pathname, starting from '/'. Without
qualifying the name of the executable, Jeffrey is right: you
usually end up invoking the shell test command (builtin, or
otherwise).
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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