Re: Ada Equivalent of "system()" in C?

[ron@cs.tamu.edu (Ron J Theriault)]

In article <emery-1604961854590001@line029.nwm.mindlink.net>, emery@grebyn.com (David Emery) writes:
|> In article <4l1dbi$pho@rational.rational.com>, rlk@rational.com (Bob
|> Kitzberger) wrote:
|> 
|> > : I'm new to Ada programming, having come from a C background.  Is
|> > : there an equivalent in Ada of the "system()" function in C that
|> > : allows you execute an external program?
|> > 
|> > Take a look at the Posix Ada bindings -- likely provided by
|> > your compiler vendor.  ...
|> > --
|> > Bob Kitzberger        Rational Software Corporation       rlk@rational.com
|> 
|> The Unix function system() is not included in POSIX.1 or POSIX.5.  I 
|> believe that it is included in the POSIX.1a revision that is still in
|> development....
|>             dave

Posix 1003.5 defines the Ada 83 to POSIX API interface.
One would use: Posix_Process_Primitives.Start_Process, and
then wait for it to finish.  The executable to start, would be 
a shell of ones choosing, with the command string as an argument.

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