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From: "Paolo Argenton" <paolo.argenton@elsag.it>
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Subject: asynchronos select question
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:54:31 +0200
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Just learning Ada in my spare time, so please be patient.. ;-)
I have the following question, regarding the select then abort usage:

if I try the following snippet, inspired by the AARM example

select
    delay 5.0;
    put_line (" timeout" );
then abort
    proc_with_blocking_io; -- i.e. wait for a byte to come from a serial
line for istance
end select;

it never triggers the timeout part and waits forever, at least on NT+gnat
3.13.
Is it correct ? incorrect ? my misunderstanding ? compiler/OS dependant code
?
thanks in advance

Paolo Argenton
paoloa1@yahoo.com