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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Freezing a task
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"Rego, P." <pvrego@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a more elegant way to do this? Maybe some procedure
> My_Task.FreezeNow in a unknown (by me) package? Thanks

Well, you could do it in the debugger :-)

Programmatically, no. Your choices for inter-task comms are (a) the
rendezvous, (b) polling some shared resource (eg a protected object),
(c) something using sockets.

Or you could unilaterally abort the task, which would be the end of it.

For (a), maybe something like

loop
   select
      accept Pause;
      accept Continue;
   else
      null;
   end select;
   --  do stuff
end loop;