From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Asynchronous IO
Date: 1996/06/18
Date: 1996-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Jun18132951@organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nh91dnl0a6.fsf@paralysys
In article <nh91dnl0a6.fsf@paralysys> nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi) writes:
> It seems to me that neither Ada nor any other langauge for that matter
> can specify what happens when 2 or more tasks/threads attempt
> access to a shared external system resource such as a file since this
> by its nature, is the resposibility of the operating system (in
[or runtime kernal for bare HW]
[various good stuff...]
> The behviour should be no different from if 2 or more processes
[or OS threads]
> on the system try to access the same file. The IO operations
> I can be competely wrong here becuase I have not also check the RM on
> this, but I can bet my house that I have not bought yet that this is
> how things would work, and if they don't work like this, then they are
I believe your house is safe! :-)
/Jon
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-14 0:00 Asynchronous IO Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
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