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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: can someone help me with this code (explanation)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:44:05 +0300
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On 14-09-26 01:27 , Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 01:10 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>
>> To make task-safe use of Ada.Text_IO, it should be wrapped in some way
>> to ensure that only one task calls it at a time. For example, you could
>> write a task with an entry like Put_Line (Message : in String) and an
>> accept statement that does Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Message). But a
>> protected-object wrapper is probably better for uses where I/O
>> performance (latency) is not critical.
> 
> Except that I/O is potentially blocking, and so cannot appear in a protected
> operation, meaning one needs a task one way or another.

Yes. Apologies for my error.

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