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: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: System Calls Date: 1998/12/29 Message-ID: <76ai9b$ion5@news.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 426749134 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3677F2B6.FDC20000@gla.ecoledoc.lip6.fr> <7598nc$5lg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36793CF7.6795AA80@gla.ecoledoc.lip6.fr> <75bsm6$ccl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <75tmgp$bjf@top.mitre.org> <75tv4m$vmm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1998Dec24.140342.1@eisner> <760dhr$pbs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: Kv�rner Oil & Gas Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote > >Yes but the original questioner excluded VMS, and that >is perfectly reasonable, a package that covers Unix and >NT (and OS/2 and Win95 without extra effort) is still very >useful to most people. The VMS user community is a small >sliver, and while it is nice to include VMS where possible >(as is done for example in GNAT.OS_Lib) it would be a >mistake to let the idiosyncrasies of VMS impede progress >here! I don't think there is a particular need to exclude anybody. Most OSes has similar semantics with regards to drives, directories and file names. The problem is that syntax is different. It is easy to create an intermediate description of these things so that a program might reason about its environment in a sensible manner. All that is needed is a translator to and from that representation. A sensible representation of the intermediate description would be something like used recursively (at least if it is transmitted or stored somewhere). Tagging items allows programs to disregard what they don't know or care about. These items may be version number or some other file info such as dates, last backup, protection, file type, etc. Greetings,