From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Timeouts in Ada
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:37:55 -0500
Date: 2014-07-21T18:37:55-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lqk88j$4pc$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lq7uhv$vao$1@dont-email.me
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message
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> Le 17/07/2014 07:18, NiGHTS a écrit :
>> I am looking at Ex. 10.
>>
>> task Password_Server is
>> entry Check (User, Pass : in String; Valid : out Boolean);
>> entry Set (User, Pass : in String);
>> end Password_Server;
>> ...
>> User_Name, Password : String (1 .. 8);
>> ...
>> Put ("Please give your new password:");
>> Get_Line (Password);
>> select
>> Password_Server.Set (User_Name, Password);
>> Put_Line ("Done");
>> or
>> delay 10.0;
>> Put_Line ("The system is busy now, please try again later.");
>> end select;
>>
>> Now as an Ada beginner with a strong background in C/Asm I interpret
>> this example in the following way...
>>
>> 1. "select" creates a thread which runs the body of "select" or the
>> body of "or". Or maybe it creates two threads for each and blocks its
>> own thread until one finishes.
>>
> [Rest snipped, since based on wrong assertion]
>
> Not at all! In Ada, one task=one thread, there are no hidden threads.
Not true; ATC may need a hidden thread. But not here... (well, not unless
the task supervisor itself uses a hidden thread, but that would probably
exist during the life of the program).
> This kind of select is called a timed entry call.
Oops, you are right. For some reason, I thought this was an ATC. Ignore my
previous response (unless you're thinking about ATC).
Randy.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-17 5:18 Timeouts in Ada NiGHTS
2014-07-17 7:08 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-17 8:35 ` NiGHTS
2014-07-21 23:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-22 1:11 ` Shark8
2014-07-22 7:39 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-22 8:31 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-22 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17 7:38 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17 8:40 ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 10:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17 19:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 19:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-17 20:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 20:29 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 20:52 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-07-21 23:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-17 20:43 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-21 23:37 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2014-07-17 7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 8:59 ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 9:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 17:10 ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 20:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 16:12 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 16:46 ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 17:11 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-17 17:58 ` NiGHTS
2014-07-17 19:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:12 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-17 19:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-17 18:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-23 22:37 ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-24 9:23 ` AdaMagica
2014-07-24 15:37 ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-25 5:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-25 9:11 ` AdaMagica
2014-07-25 16:15 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-25 16:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-17 19:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
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