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From: "Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
Subject: Re: Launching background job from Ada.Real_Time.Timing_Events
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:13:36 +0200
Date: 2016-06-02T23:13:36+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <niq7he$ph5$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ni2jud$kv2$1@dont-email.me>

On 25/05/16 00:21, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 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.

Indeed I was also thinking about this. I can't think of anything besides 
periodical checks to some bail-out flag.

> The PragmARCs are at
>
> pragmada.x10hosting.com
>
> and
>
> github.com/jrcarter

Thanks!


  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-24 14:22 Launching background job from Ada.Real_Time.Timing_Events Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-05-24 14:39 ` Mark Lorenzen
2016-05-24 15:06   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-05-24 22:21   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-06-02 21:13     ` Alejandro R. Mosteo [this message]
2016-06-02 23:16       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-24 23:52 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-06-02 21:22   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-05-25  7:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-02 21:25   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-06-03  7:26     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-06-03 10:03       ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-06-03 12:15         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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