Re: Launching background job from Ada.Real_Time.Timing_Events

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

On 05/24/2016 07:39 AM, Mark Lorenzen wrote:
>
> If you want to detach the high-priority PO implementing the timer event
> handler from the PO implementing the job queue, then let a task block on an
> entry in the first PO and put the job into the second PO. The task is then
> the active object moving data between the POs and thus detaching them.

This is known as a forwarder. There's a generic forwarder in the PragmAda 
Reusable Components. The main problem with forwarders is that there's no easy 
way to terminate them.

The PragmARCs are at

pragmada.x10hosting.com

and

github.com/jrcarter

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