From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Q] Operating System Command Interface
Date: 1998/05/05
Date: 1998-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <354F1D90.39080B2D@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6ims5j$1vo@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com
John McCabe wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that, as standard, Ada has no direct perating
> system command interface akin to the C "System" call?
Look into the IEEE POSIX.5 standard, the Ada version of the Unix API.
There you'll find procedures such as
procedure Start_Process
(Child : out POSIX.Process_Identification.Process_ID;
Pathname : in POSIX.Pathname;
Template : in Process_Template;
Arg_List : in POSIX.POSIX_String_List
:= POSIX.Empty_String_List);
in package POSIX.Process_Primitives that probably do what you want
(i.e. allow you to call "/bin/sh", etc.).
An implementation is on
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/florist.html
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-05 0:00 [Q] Operating System Command Interface John McCabe
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-05-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Do-While Jones
1998-05-08 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn [this message]
1998-05-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-05-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-05-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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