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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to make a task wait and resume ?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:28:15 -0600
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On 2019-01-17 17:21, reinert wrote:
>
>> I have used a protected object to control (from "outside")
>> wait/resume of a task. It works, but is it good practise?
>
> Why not? In other cases you might use a task entry instead of protected 
> object.

You could also use the built-in types for that purpose, see D.10, 
Synchronous Task Control.

...
> If the pulse event to release several tasks it is a bit more complicated. 
> An example is in the Simple Components.

 For that, you might want to use a Synchronous Barrier, see D.10.1.

For me, I would try to do this as part of other necessary synchronization, 
using usual task or protected operations. One rarely wants to have a task 
wait in a vacuum. If I had to do it by iteself, however, I'd probably use 
one of the built-in types (have to implement them in Janus/Ada, first, 
though :-).

                          Randy.