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From: evangeli@cnam.fr (Evangelista Sami)
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Subject: task synchronization and activation
Date: 19 Feb 2005 07:11:45 -0800
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Hello all

Why does a task have to wait that all the tasks it created are
activated before
executing? I am thinking of point 9.2.5 of the RM :

"The task that created the new tasks and initiated their activations
(the activator) is blocked until all of these activations complete
(successfully or not)."

I can understand that a master has to wait for the tasks he created
before finalizing since in the other case it could "free" some memory
needed by its children.
But i cannot see why this synchronisation after activation is
necessary. What is the technical reason?

Thanks for any help

Sami