Re: Termination of periodic tasks

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 06/17/2014 01:00 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Actually, there is a way, at least if you want to ensure that the program
> cleans itself up properly. We invented it for Claw, and I put it into the
> ACATS so it's pretty certain that all compilers support it.
>
> The trick is to use Ada.Task_Identification to find out whether the
> environment task is trying to exit.
>
>      if not Is_Callable(Environment_Task) then
>          return; -- Exit this task.
>     end if;

That's good to know. I'll try to add it to my bag of tricks (though of course 
not needing any tricks is better).

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Jeff Carter
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