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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: process blocking
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P Hull <p.hull@msw.com> wrote:
 
: Oh i was not looking for a static solution. pMain is visible to all tasks
: p1..pn. The first task (i.e. one of p1..pn based upon some timing mechanism)
: will rendezvous with pMain and seizes pMain. And once pi has finished
: whatever it wants to do with pMain, some other task within p1..pn will then
: next rendezvous with pMain and seize it, and once finished .. etc etc

is pMail special so that you could hide it behind a protected object?


-- georg