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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding
Date: 21 Jun 2003 17:22:12 -0500
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In article <un4Ja.7658$ZE.5855@lakeread05>, David Emery <demery@cox.net> writes:

> The error reporting model is for the POSIX call to raise
> POSIX.POSIX_Error.  (Unlike in C...) The application program must
> handle this exception somehow, or be terminated.  (In the latter
> case, the value of the POSIX process's return code is 42, "Unhandled
> Exception."

What is a "POSIX process" ?

Should not error handling be restricted to the Ada task that encountered
the error ?