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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!194.25.134.62.MISMATCH!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Tasking issues Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <1186851804.567302.223160@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <1ilz4m777fqa5.lmji3020dpvu$.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:22:29 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Aug 2007 15:18:13 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 0bee4650.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=7=BCW6hoKAOE4ZB2flKORAic==]BZ:afN4Fo<]lROoRA4nDHegD_]RESoc4^iL^SWGDNcfSJ;bb[EFCTGGVUmh?DLK[5LiR>kgBJ68K]D@9D^H X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1424 Date: 2007-08-13T15:18:13+02:00 List-Id: On 13 Aug 2007 07:41:07 -0500, Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <1ilz4m777fqa5.lmji3020dpvu$.dlg@40tude.net>, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > >> 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. You certainly mean VMS (:-)) Yes, they had it already in RSX-11, and ASTs too... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de