From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ccbf9deb2b62d073 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: File_size on windows Ada 2005 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:06:50 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1191546410.087526.327550@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> References: <13g8me47tunfb77@corp.supernews.com> <1191521369.369419.29230@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1191546410 17300 127.0.0.1 (5 Oct 2007 01:06:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:06:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1191521369.369419.29230@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2307 Date: 2007-10-04T18:06:50-07:00 List-Id: On Oct 4, 11:09 am, Anh Vo wrote: > On Oct 3, 8:10 pm, "ME" wrote: > > > Does File_size work on directories? What does it return in windows? > > Use the function Directories.Size (String) return > Directories.File_Size as shown in function specification below > > function Size (Name : String) return File_Size; This doesn't necessarily work on directories, though, even though it's in the Directories package. The description of the Size function is: # Returns the size of the external file represented by Name. The size of an # external file is the number of stream elements contained in the file. If the # external file is not an ordinary file, the result is implementation- defined. and a directory is certainly not an ordinary file. So if you give it a directory name as the Name, it could raise an exception (possibly Name_Error, but not necessarily), or it could return a result that means something implementation-defined, or it could return meaningless garbage. -- Adam