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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ravenscar vs selective wait
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:16:58 -0700
Date: 2015-03-24T10:16:58-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mes64o$10r$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mera8n$d4t$1@dont-email.me>

On 03/24/2015 02:21 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> 
> Some hint however: I have a record containing a PO similar to what Jeff
> suggests, and a Timing_Event that unblocks the PO when the delay has
> expired. Similarly, the Wait entry has an out parameter to tell whether
> it's been awaken by an event or by time-out.

I hadn't considered a timing event, thinking they were excluded. Now I see that
only local timing events are prohibited. A timing event would be better than a
task that polls.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-23 22:00 Ravenscar vs selective wait Simon Wright
2015-03-24  6:48 ` Simon Wright
2015-03-24  7:25   ` Jeffrey Carter
2015-03-24  9:21     ` J-P. Rosen
2015-03-24 17:16       ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2015-03-24 20:12       ` Simon Wright
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