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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: file locking in Ada
Date: 1997/04/01
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Date: 1997-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.859697051@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>One more thing Bob, remember ceiling locking when you try to construct
>your test program, this ensures that a higher priority task cannot
>preempt a lower priority task in the middle of a protected object.

Yeah, but: The core language doesn't care about ceilings, and anyway,
you can always construct a test where all protected objects have the
same ceiling (which I did).

- Bob