Re: Problem with tasks

["Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:HbX77.7784$ar1.25497@www.newsranger.com...
> In article <3b5e887e.10671695@news.bt.es>, Carlos Aganzo says...
> >
> >I need to create a new instance of the same task from itself,
>
> First off, this sounds like you designed a system around the "fork"
concept, and
> are now trying to plug that into Ada. You'll have a lot easier time if you
> *design* from Ada too.

Maybe. But sometimes the design call for this type of behaviour, and it has
nothing to do with forking.

> If you want to dynamicly create tasks in Ada, you should be using task
types.
> You can create pointers to task type objects, put them in arrays,
dynamicly
> allocate and deallocate them, etc. You can even create them from within
> themselves, if you *truly* need something like "fork". That type of
activity can
> lead to "fork-bomb" errors though.
>

Right. That's why a good design would make use of a task-allocator
abstraction, which may allocate a new taks, but may later be changed to
manage a finite sized pool of tasks (the "thread pool" pattern).


Ehud Lamm