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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,126ce244c524526b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Tasking issues Date: 13 Aug 2007 07:41:07 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <1186851804.567302.223160@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <1ilz4m777fqa5.lmji3020dpvu$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1187008849 20316 192.135.80.34 (13 Aug 2007 12:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1423 Date: 2007-08-13T07:41:07-05:00 List-Id: In article <1ilz4m777fqa5.lmji3020dpvu$.dlg@40tude.net>, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 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.