Re: Blocking syscalls in Tasks

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

Each and every time you speak you CUT the post down Ada! 
WHY are you trying to KILL Ada!  And I say nothing that is 
confusing except to those who hate Ada. 

An event thread is a blocked thread. See Microsoft Windows Documentation!
LEARN before speaking! 

In <q7GdnQCVgLL7XkLVnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@comcast.com>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
>> Except for DOS in todays OS all Ada partitions are executed by native OS
>> threads.
>  This is confusing.  An Ada partition is not at all the same as an Ada
>task, and there's no guarantee that an Ada task maps 1-1 to an OS thread.
>
>> Now, in a GUI system, the RC_TASK (resource task) is blocked until a input
>> device such as the mouse or keyboard actives the thread.
>  MS Windows tasks do not block waiting for mouse or keyboard.  Windows
>"event based" GUI design was based on a single thread and a polling loop.