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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Termination of periodic tasks
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On 06/15/2014 03:10 AM, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:
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> A timed select to wait for an entry that exists the loop would be fine
> too, but how can I detect program termination to call the entry?
> Could something be worked with a user-defined Finalize?

ARM 7.6.1 says, "For the finalization of a master, dependent tasks are first 
awaited, as explained in 9.3. Then each object ... is finalized if the object 
was successfully initialized and still exists."

So the task has to terminate before Finalize is called.

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Jeff Carter
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