Re: OSThreads, Threads, and Gates

"Rod Haper" <[email protected]> wrote

> Have a look at Ada95 as a model for excellent builtin language support
> of multi-tasking, synchronization and concurrency (ARM Section 9
> <http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-9.html>).  Also the Ada95
> Real-Time Systems annex (ARM Section D
> <http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-D.html>) and the Systems
> Programming annex (ARM Section C
> <http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-C.html>).

This was quite useful.  They have a pretty standard thread model, like Java,
but they do allow aborting a thread.  They do the same thing I was proposing
where they delay the abort until the protected lock operations are finished.
This is good news.