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: 103376,6bfccba244d92efd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Choose Ada flyer Date: 1999/01/20 Message-ID: <784kvl$4qb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434779988 References: <36759F4A.20D3C90C@grep.net> <77vkl5$9ub$1@remarQ.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x14.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jan 20 13:16:43 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) wrote: > a) a freely available POSIX standard for using OS > features like file and record locking in a OS > independant manner; > b) Said POSIX libary standard with all relevant Ada > compilers on all relevant platforms. Of course NT is NOT a relevant platform here, since it is not POSIX compliant. Yes, you could implement some subset of POSIX in this environment, and even by fiddling, most of it, but it is not clear that this is really worth while if all you want is specific features (I must say I was unaware of the POSIX standard including record locking, but there is a lot of stuff there :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own