Re: Timeouts in Ada

[NiGHTS <nights@unku.us>]

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 3:38:40 AM UTC-4, J-P. Rosen wrote:
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> This kind of select is called a timed entry call. It tries to rendezvous
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> with Password_Server; if the server accepts the rendezvous before 10.0
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> seconds, the statements after the entry call are executed and the "or"
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> part is ignored. If the server doesn't accept the rendezvous within 10.0
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> seconds, the rendezvous request is cancelled and the statements in the
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> "or" part are executed.
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I was mainly confused by the fact that the delay command was placed inside the body of a fork in the path of logic, making it seem as though in order to satisfy the syntax it had to do things concurrently. ARM seems to imply that it expects a delay in the body (first command?) as a condition to determine which path to take. I'm still a little fuzzy on the mechanics but I'm sure this will clear up as I do some more reading on the C variant.