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: 103376,347d22f6dce4e40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: System Calls Date: 1998/12/17 Message-ID: <75bsm6$ccl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 423356671 References: <3677F2B6.FDC20000@gla.ecoledoc.lip6.fr> <7598nc$5lg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36793CF7.6795AA80@gla.ecoledoc.lip6.fr> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Dec 17 21:22:18 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1998-12-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36793CF7.6795AA80@gla.ecoledoc.lip6.fr>, Gilles Sarnikowski wrote: > > There are tons of them. I'm sorry I can't give a better answer, but I have no > > clue what "system" you are talking about. Is it Windows NT 4? Is it Linux? Is > > it a Commodore 64? Is it a Newton? I tried asking my Magic 8-Ball, but it > > just said "Ask again later". :-) > > i was talking about every systems: i just want to call another executable. > i'am developping on unix. Invoking another executable is not a standard function in Ada like it is in a typical scripting language. Thus you have to use OS calls, which means the answer depends on the OS you are using. We're getting there. But how do you want the executable to behave? Should it run simultaniously with your already running Ada program? Should your Ada program wait for the other executable to complete? Should the Ada program terminate entirely in deference to the new executable? Does any information need to be communicated between them, or is this a "fire and forget" situation? -- T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own