From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e46e8a19dc8e224 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Asynchronous IO Date: 1996/06/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160860935 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article 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 -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com