Re: task time-out&abort

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

> My goal is that the calling process can abort the call after x second
> if the computation of the entry take too much time.

Curiously enough on 2001 I wrote this for an Ada-Europe workshop on 
exceptions:

<<
The time-out situation is so common that perhaps it deserves a special
device in a future Ada:

   begin
     ...
   end in 10.0; -- end in 10 seconds, or raise Time_Out
   exception
     when Time_Out => ...
 >>
(http://www.liacc.up.pt/~maa/files/ehada1.pdf)

Unfortunately it didn't make it and the implementation was left as an 
exercise.