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From: "Peter Walker" <p.walker@trinet.com>
Subject: question on tasks
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:44:32 +1000
Date: 2004-09-18T18:44:32+10:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <414bf572@dnews.tpgi.com.au> (raw)

Hi, is it possible to have a task do the following two things 
simultaneously:

1) sent a finite number of message to another task as random times
2) listen in on incoming messages and acknowledge them.

for example, the taskA would send 3 messages at random times to some 
communication_buffer (which relays messages to other tasks). taskA would 
also listen for incoming messages and print them to standard output.

I have tried to use the following to perform the above, but it does not 
work. Would anyone know how to implement the above?

Many thanks.
Peter

----------------------------
   task A is
      entry Incoming (Source : Location; Destination : Location; Message : 
String);
   end A;


   task body A is
      Done : Boolean := False;
      Messages_To_Send : Integer := 3;
      ...
   begin

      while not Done loop

         select

            accept Incoming (Source : Location; Destination : Location) do
               Put_Line("Recieved message " & Message & " from " & 
Location'Image(Source));
            end C1;

         else

            if Messages_To_Send > 0 then
               delay Duration(Random_Time.Random(Seed)); -- some random 
number between 1 and 10
               Communication_Buffer.C1(A, B, "Hello");
               Messages_To_Send := Messages_To_Send - 1;
               ...
            end if;

         end select;

      end loop;

   end A;
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             reply	other threads:[~2004-09-18  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-18  8:44 Peter Walker [this message]
2004-09-18 10:21 ` question on tasks Martin Dowie
2004-09-20 14:56   ` Peter Walker
2004-09-20 15:53     ` Martin Dowie
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