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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:05:23 +0200
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

> As pointed out by Dave Emery, new error codes get added and it would be
> absurd to add new exceptions to the "standard" and ask people to add new
> exception handlers to their programs.  There is an exception
> Posix.Posix_Error to force the program not to ignore problems.

Ah, thanks for this explanation.  I think I confused the POSIX.5
binding with a wrapper around the POSIX C interface. *blush*