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,a6e8237dc15142a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Resolving a deadlock References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:45:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.106 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1093394759 63.184.105.106 (Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:45:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:45:59 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2978 Date: 2004-08-25T00:45:59+00:00 List-Id: Daniel Wild wrote: > > Task A is calling an entry in Task B to tell it to shut down, but > Task B is calling an entry in Task A to pass it some data. The simple solution is to put a protected object between the 2 tasks. That way B can get either the shut down indication or the data from a single call. -- Jeff Carter "I wave my private parts at your aunties." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 13