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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b12bc9a1cc5c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert L. Spooner" Subject: Re: Spawning a subprocess and communicating with it. Date: 1998/10/06 Message-ID: <361A6C4C.8D1BD2FB@psu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 398379624 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: To: "Condic, Marin D." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Applied Research Laboratory Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: rls19@psu.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin, The only C routines you will need to rely on are the library routines that are the socket calls. Everything above that level can be done with Ada using pragma interface. I've been doing it that way for years. Ada is great for abstracting the functionality you need. Condic, Marin D. wrote: > Are you sure it all has to be done with C routines? I'd think that most of > this should be simply connecting to OS runtime libraries, which may have an > interface expressed in C syntax, but ought to be accessible from anything. > Especially since Ada has such good syntax for connecting to stuff in other > languages. > Regards, Bob -- Robert L. Spooner Registered Professional Engineer Research Assistant Intelligent Control Systems Group Applied Research Laboratory Phone: (814) 863-4120 The Pennsylvania State University FAX: (814) 863-7843 P. O. Box 30 State College, PA 16804-0030 RLS19@psu.edu