General sockets & file system interface

General sockets & file system interface

[Brett Kettering]

Is there a product available that provides a platform-independent
interface to the file system and sockets?  In my particular case I just
need to list the files in a directory and do the standard open, bind,
listen, and read on the socket.

At this time I am just looking to target WinNT and Sun Solaris.  I'm
using Aonix's ObjectAda 7.1.2 on NT and they have an NT-specific
interface that I am using successfully for these purposes.

I'll probably purchase ObjectAda for Sun Solaris, but their tech.
support indicates that the interface provided for Solaris would be
different than for NT, thus my question to this group.  I'd like my code
to be the same on both platforms.

Thanks for any references provided.

Brett Kettering

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Re: General sockets & file system interface

[dennison]

In article <36190FE1.E9ADA9A3@llnl.gov>,
  brettk@llnl.gov wrote:
> Is there a product available that provides a platform-independent
> interface to the file system and sockets?  In my particular case I just
> need to list the files in a directory and do the standard open, bind,
> listen, and read on the socket.

Well...there's tcl.

In this instance, I'd probably just write high-level bindings for these
operations and write different implementations of the bindings for each
platform. The facilities are close enough that you should be able to do that
without too much work.

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Re: General sockets & file system interface

[Tom Moran]

>In this instance, I'd probably just write high-level bindings for these
>operations and write different implementations of the bindings for each
>platform. The facilities are close enough that you should be able to do that
>without too much work.
  Claw 1.2 defines a high level Ada socket interface and implements it
on Windows sockets.  It shouldn't be hard to change the implementation
to use non-Windows sockets.

Re: General sockets & file system interface

[Roy T. Fielding]

In <36190FE1.E9ADA9A3@llnl.gov> Brett Kettering <brettk@llnl.gov> writes:
>Is there a product available that provides a platform-independent
>interface to the file system and sockets?  In my particular case I just
>need to list the files in a directory and do the standard open, bind,
>listen, and read on the socket.

The Onions networks streams library for Ada95 is designed to do that,
though it will probably need some work to port it to WinNT.  In any case,
it provides a better portability abstraction.  It needs a new maintainer.

The source code is released under the same modified GPL as GNAT/GLADE,
mostly because it reuses some of the Garlic library.

   http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/libwww-ada95/

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