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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e976b2d06bac8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.80.4 with SMTP id n4mr1450932pax.7.1353123282388; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:34:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.195.169 with SMTP id if9mr198077igc.1.1353123282217; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:34:42 -0800 (PST) Path: s9ni12298pbb.0!nntp.google.com!kr7no7594660pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:34:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <283d1708-03c5-4926-b6ce-ac3271af67c2@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: ADHCP version 0.3 From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:34:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-11-16T19:34:41-08:00 List-Id: On Friday, November 16, 2012 5:35:29 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote: > > > In this specific case, I'm not sure what use a DHCP client would be useful > for - getting IP addresses is something that has to be done very early in a > system's life and thus belongs to the kernel/OS and not the application > program. I could see if having use in an all-Ada system but that's about it. I would love to see an all-Ada [general purpose] OS, with the caveat that the design is not "inspired by"/copied-from *nix.