From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Tasks and C/C++ code.
Date: 1998/11/20
Date: 1998-11-20T20:08:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k90qunxl.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3654746F.3C297E56@elca-matrix.ch
>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch> writes:
Mats> Why not ? If the C function is potentially blocking _and_
Mats> non-reentrant (as is gethostbyname for example, which can take
Mats> some time), then it's the only option.
9.5.1 (8) During a protected action, it is a bounded error to invoke
an operation that is potentially blocking.
I think that the spirit of protected operations is to be really short.
Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-09 0:00 Tasks and C/C++ code Barry L. Dorough
1998-11-09 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-10 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-11 0:00 ` dbotton
1998-11-11 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-11 0:00 ` Barry L. Dorough
1998-11-11 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-12 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-13 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-20 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-24 0:00 ` Blocking protected ops (was: Tasks and C/C++ code) Mats Weber
1998-11-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-25 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-25 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-26 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-11-27 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-30 0:00 ` Simon Wright
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