From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: can someone help me with this code (explanation)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:27:47 -0700
Date: 2014-09-25T15:27:47-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m024t3$j1p$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8jb5lFns5kU1@mid.individual.net>
On 09/25/2014 01:10 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>
> To make task-safe use of Ada.Text_IO, it should be wrapped in some way
> to ensure that only one task calls it at a time. For example, you could
> write a task with an entry like Put_Line (Message : in String) and an
> accept statement that does Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Message). But a
> protected-object wrapper is probably better for uses where I/O
> performance (latency) is not critical.
Except that I/O is potentially blocking, and so cannot appear in a protected
operation, meaning one needs a task one way or another.
--
Jeff Carter
"Blessed is just about anyone with a vested interest in the status quo."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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2014-09-25 13:44 can someone help me with this code (explanation) Stribor40
2014-09-25 14:56 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-25 15:01 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-25 15:54 ` Stribor40
2014-09-25 17:11 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-25 19:41 ` Stribor40
2014-09-25 19:53 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-25 20:10 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-25 22:27 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-09-26 7:04 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 7:58 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-26 10:24 ` G.B.
2014-09-26 11:48 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 12:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-26 14:15 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 14:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-26 15:31 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 16:08 ` G.B.
2014-09-30 4:22 ` Brad Moore
2014-09-30 21:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-10-01 15:38 ` Brad Moore
2014-09-26 16:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-09-26 20:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-27 18:16 ` Björn Lundin
2014-09-26 16:43 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-26 16:45 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-10-09 2:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-26 16:44 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-26 5:06 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-25 16:53 ` Jeffrey Carter
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