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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: [Q] Operating System Command Interface
Date: 1998/05/05
Date: 1998-05-05T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6inf2e$kk8$1@polo.advicom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 354F1D90.39080B2D@cl.cam.ac.uk



Markus Kuhn wrote in message <354F1D90.39080B2D@cl.cam.ac.uk>...
>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);
The reason I did not offer this solution is that Florist has not been ported
to all platforms, so is not as ubiquitous as the call to the "system"
library function.

David C. Hoos, Sr.







  reply	other threads:[~1998-05-05  0:00 UTC|newest]

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
1998-05-05  0:00   ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
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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