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: 103376,6413b417b806eb28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Date: 1999/04/10 Message-ID: <370F025C.4C821FEC@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 464723210 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7eg43i$d3b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <370CC730.4C6112DB@utech.net> <370D7007.2D3AD58B@rocketmail.com> <7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com> <7elrg5$egk2@ftp.kvaerner.com> <7emjk8$rp3@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 923730908 130.67.225.214 (Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:55:08 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:55:08 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: bill_@nospam wrote: > In article <7elrg5$egk2@ftp.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei says... > > > > >It would be more useful to write useful utilities for Linux in Ada or extend > >Linux with Ada software. > > > > It is kind'a hard to write Linux or Unix stuff in Ada, becuase the Posix > Ada binding do not seem to work well or even documented. The Posix Ada > bindings for linux (there is now even an RPM for these for Linux!) do not > have an API document to tell one how to use them to write the sort of stuff > you are talking about. > If you don't like what is there, make your own. In order to get a decent result one should probably read one of W. Rickard Stevens programming books. He uses C, but there should be no problem translating to Ada. Regardless of what one does it is neccessary to understand the problem domain in order to provide a sensible solution. Greetings,