Re: How to determine if task is busy or not?

Tomek Walkuski wrote:
Is there any way to determine if task is busy or not?

I have pool of worker tasks and I want to choose one of them to give
some work to do.

I don't think you should see the problem in these terms. You don't
have to select a task from the pool; the tasks select themselves as
they become available for a new job, e.g. each task would look like

loop
Queue.Get_Next (Job);
Process (Job);
end loop;

where Queue is a protected object and Get_Next removes a job from it
and passes it to the task. Of course, if there are no jobs in the
queue, it blocks until one arrives.

HTH

--
Ludovic Brenta.
.

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