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Forcing the completion of abnormal tasks

Forcing the completion of abnormal tasks The abort statement is used to bring about the unconditional completion of one or more tasks. However, some tasks are not required to become complete immediately upon execution of the abort statement and can continue to execute, perhaps indefinitely. While the use of forced synchronization points will bring about the completion of such tasks, they can produce undesirable run-time behavior in "normal" tasks. This paper presents an alternative to unconditional forced synchronization that allows abnormal tasks to become complete, but does not interfere with normal tasks. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGAda Ada Letters Association for Computing Machinery

Forcing the completion of abnormal tasks

Papay, D.
ACM SIGAda Ada Letters , Volume IX (6) – Sep 1, 1989
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 1989 by ACM Inc.
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1094-3641
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10.1145/71327.71332
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Abstract

The abort statement is used to bring about the unconditional completion of one or more tasks. However, some tasks are not required to become complete immediately upon execution of the abort statement and can continue to execute, perhaps indefinitely. While the use of forced synchronization points will bring about the completion of such tasks, they can produce undesirable run-time behavior in "normal" tasks. This paper presents an alternative to unconditional forced synchronization that allows abnormal tasks to become complete, but does not interfere with normal tasks.

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ACM SIGAda Ada Letters – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Sep 1, 1989

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