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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Tasking issues
Date: 13 Aug 2007 07:41:07 -0500
Date: 2007-08-13T07:41:07-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PoVyKMM0i2z6@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1ilz4m777fqa5.lmji3020dpvu$.dlg@40tude.net

In article <1ilz4m777fqa5.lmji3020dpvu$.dlg@40tude.net>, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:39:58 GMT, anon wrote:

>> As for "Get_Line immediately", thats an error, The Ada code can not 
>> force the operating system or keyboard routine to abort.
> 
> Of course it can, on most operating systems you can wait for a
> or-combination of events, you can also close the file handle from outside
> and that will abort pending I/O etc.

On at least one operating system, one can cancel pending I/O without
closing the channel.

I don't know whether any particular Ada implementation does that,
but current posts in this thread seem to be talking about the Ada
language rather than implementation-specific characteristics.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-13 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-11 17:03 Tasking issues shaunpatterson
2007-08-11 18:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-12 11:06   ` Simon Wright
2007-08-12 12:05     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-12 17:12       ` shaunpatterson
2007-08-12 18:03         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-12 22:10         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-08-13 19:54         ` Simon Wright
2007-08-13 22:30           ` shaunpatterson
2007-08-14  7:10             ` Tasking issues => Book List anon
     [not found]     ` <13bulskfjvogv8e@corp.supernews.com>
2007-08-12 20:20       ` Tasking issues Simon Wright
2007-08-11 18:51 ` jimmaureenrogers
2007-08-11 19:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-08-11 22:31 ` Steve
2007-08-12  9:00 ` anon
2007-08-12  9:43   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-12 21:39     ` anon
2007-08-12 22:15       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-08-13  9:13         ` anon
2007-08-13 19:37           ` Simon Wright
2007-08-13 20:17             ` Markus E.L. 2
2007-08-14  0:40           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-08-13  9:22       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-13 12:41         ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2007-08-13 13:22           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-12 21:03   ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-08-12 22:07   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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