From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f4e8c6faa68f2ed1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.65.235 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.side3.eu!news.buerger.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Start_Process_Search error detection Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:34:43 +0100 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: taasingegade.news.jacob-sparre.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1203003283 21771 85.82.239.166 (14 Feb 2008 15:34:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:34:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:49EZyHQpvyyijajOBQLvU7f4nWQ= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19793 Date: 2008-02-14T16:34:43+01:00 List-Id: David Shochat wrote: > But if I call Wait_For_Child_Process, in the successful case, won't > that cause me to block? Only if you don't use the argument "Block => False". But you would of course have to be patient enough to give the child process time enough to complete its attempt to load the new program. Remember that even if you successfully verify that the program is available before you call Start_Process_Search, you can't be sure that it still is available once you actually call Start_Process_Search. Greetings, Jacob -- "... there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered" -- Tom Lehrer