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Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> Coming back to I/O - what I miss in Ada is the equivalent of fread in
> C - that is, an operation that reads *up to* the given number of
> bytes. Or maybe there is something that I didn't notice? Such an
> operation is an important basis for custom buffered input. Without it
> the only way to reinvent a proper I/O is via direct bindings to system-
> level API.

Streams.Read and overridings should achieve this?
Read fills an array of a given size with up to at most
the array's length stream_elements.