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: 103376,77efb4ab26922e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Blocking syscalls in Tasks Reply-To: no to spamers (No@email.given.org) References: X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:39:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.126.37 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1222645194 12.65.126.37 (Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:39:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:39:54 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2124 Date: 2008-09-28T23:39:54+00:00 List-Id: 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 , 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.