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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada bindings for filesystems
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:44:44 +0200
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On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:23:14 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

>> I would like to know, for which filesystems is an Ada binding already
>> available? Possibly, a binding that also supports extended attributes.
> 
> Usually, there is no such thing as language bindings to specific filesystems 
> as applications do not need to know fs specific things. To handle extended 
> attributes/ACLs from within your application, you'd need low level OS 
> bindings (for libacl.so and/or libattr.so). Don't know wether they exist, 
> though.

I am not sure if bindings to GIO could qualify, since GIO actually tries to
abstract the underlying filesystem. I have incomplete bindings to GIO,
mainly its parts which would replace Ada.Directories. So it does not
include GFileAttribute for now.

http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/gio-GFileAttribute.html

Is this what needed? I cannot tell if AdaCore is going to support GIO in
the coming GtkAda 3.x. If they aren't, I could consider adding it to the
GtkAda contributions.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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