From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Streams and Concurrency
Date: 1998/12/31
Date: 1998-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In article <76g9ds$ura$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> In article <76fe92$46c$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
> "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > James S. Rogers a �crit dans le message
> > <76dn7b$a35@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
> > >Following is a modest example of what I mean about
> > >encapsulating a stream in a protected object.
> > >[snip]
> >
> > Unfortunately, all IO operations are potentially
> > blocking, and therefore not allowed from within a
> > protected operation.
> > To get the effect of mutual exclusion for procedures
> > requiring potentially blocking operations, have a look at
> > package Protection available from Adalog's components
> > page (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/adalog/compo2.htm)
>
> By the way, JPR here seems to be making the mistake of
> assuming that stream = stream_io, a common confusion. The
> original question here related to a particular
> implementation of streams that you have not seen, and you
> do not know if it does any potentially blocking operations.
Quite true. What started all this is that I was trying to use streams as a
typless buffer between two tasks. One of these tasks is Real-Time, and *can't*
wait for another task or I/O (thus the buffer).
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-30 0:00 Streams and Concurrency James S. Rogers
1998-12-29 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-30 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-31 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` Ada-G, was " Tom Moran
1999-01-01 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-11 0:00 ` Bulk synchronous model for IO (was Re: Streams and Concurrency) Kevin Rigotti
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