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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie: Code isn't executed
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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:Ht6dndDMFPbLz2_fRVn-uQ@comcast.com...
> >Also, sharing Total between the tasks is poor, it should be a protected
> >object.
>   Worse, suppose Peter checks Total while Susan is dining with Michael.
> Peter finds Total = 1 so he tries to rendezvous with Susan.  But Susan,
> on returning from dinner, decrements Total, finds it to be zero,
> prints statistics, and goes away.  Leaving poor Peter still trying to
> rendezvous.

This sounds like the real world....

>   You need a way for Peter and Michael to tell that Susan has gone away
> and they should stop calling.  Anything that involves "find out if Susan
> is taking calls, and if so call her" will fail if she leaves in the
> interval between test and call.  Since dinner is a time-limited event,
> they could use a select with timeout.  If she hasn't responded within a
> reasonable time, they can give up.

...and so does this. [Giving up, that is, seems to be my primary condition
when dating...] (Sorry, not much to do with Ada! :-)

                        Randy.