From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Blocking syscalls in Tasks
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:48:22 -0500
Date: 2008-09-28T12:48:22-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q7GdnQCVgLL7XkLVnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gGCDk.53525$Mh5.46931@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net
> Except for DOS in todays OS all Ada partitions are executed by native OS
> threads.
This is confusing. An Ada partition is not at all the same as an Ada
task, and there's no guarantee that an Ada task maps 1-1 to an OS thread.
> Now, in a GUI system, the RC_TASK (resource task) is blocked until a input
> device such as the mouse or keyboard actives the thread.
MS Windows tasks do not block waiting for mouse or keyboard. Windows
"event based" GUI design was based on a single thread and a polling loop.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-28 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-27 17:26 Blocking syscalls in Tasks schwering
2008-09-27 18:40 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-09-27 20:11 ` schwering
2008-09-27 23:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-09-27 18:58 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-09-27 20:02 ` schwering
2008-09-27 20:16 ` Ed Falis
2008-09-27 21:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-09-28 7:55 ` sjw
2008-09-28 3:16 ` anon
2008-09-28 17:48 ` tmoran [this message]
2008-09-28 23:39 ` anon
2008-09-30 2:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-09-30 10:06 ` anon
2008-09-30 11:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-01 2:18 ` anon
2008-09-30 18:06 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-30 18:10 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-09-30 20:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-10-06 17:12 ` Ada compilers supporting Ada 2005 (was: Blocking syscalls in Tasks) Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-07 11:51 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-07 14:31 ` Britt Snodgrass
2008-10-07 15:39 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-10-07 16:38 ` Adam Beneschan
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