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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Directories.Copy_File behavior
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:01:40 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-02-20T03:01:40-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0856cce6-9ebd-4824-a443-537cd1d127a8@l18g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ijplkd$pqj$1@speranza.aioe.org

On Feb 20, 12:01 am, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> > So, the actual behaviour depends on the underlying OS, I'd say.
>
> The Windows CopyFile function takes a BOOL parameter bFailIfExists,
> so is it implementation-defined what Ada.Directories.Copy_File does?
> That's not very satisfactory.

But I think it's imp-def even without that BOOL.

In practise how many OS are you going to support? You may find that
they the imp-def is the same for each, so you have a de facto
'standard' behaviour that you don't need to worry about any other
special cases for.

-- Martin



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-19 22:37 Ada.Directories.Copy_File behavior tmoran
2011-02-19 23:01 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20  0:01   ` tmoran
2011-02-20  0:31     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 11:01     ` Martin [this message]
2011-02-20 20:19       ` tmoran
2011-02-20 20:25         ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-21 18:05   ` Adam Beneschan
2011-02-21 19:26     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-21 19:41       ` Adam Beneschan
2011-02-21 20:42         ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-26  2:41     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-26  3:22       ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-01  3:17         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-26  2:34 ` Randy Brukardt
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