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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> Well, i'm not sure that would work. What if one of the tasks is 
> a library level task, i.e. declared and elaborated in a library
> level package? I'm not sure that there is a "parent" task in that
> case.

There was some confusion about this in Ada 83, but in Ada 95,
the library-package tasks depend on the environment task,
so aborting the env task aborts all other tasks, too.
(I believe that was the original intent of Ada 83, too,
but there was some confusing wording in the RM.)

- Bob