From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: ADA task
Date: 1996/09/20
Date: 1996-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Dy0AoA.2B1@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 96091716583421@psavax.pwfl.com
In article <96091716583421@psavax.pwfl.com>,
Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 <condicma@PWFL.COM> wrote:
> I borrowed & modified this example from the Ada83 LRM (Section
> 9.6) and added a temporary variable to illustrate a point: The
> computation of "Next - Calendar.Clock" is not "atomic".
Right. That's exactly why "delay until" was added. There's still a
finite, non-zero, amount of time involved in waking up a delay-ed task,
but this particular race condition is fixed.
- Bob
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1996-09-17 0:00 ADA task Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
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1996-09-18 0:00 tmoran
1996-09-17 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-11 0:00 Roumen Roupski
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1996-09-15 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Roumen Roupski
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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