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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,4f349758c918a275 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.223.84 with SMTP id ij20mr2797126qab.5.1347025774286; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.69.3 with SMTP id x3mr265945qci.20.1347025774258; Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Path: da15ni11535051qab.0!nntp.google.com!b19no4125295qas.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 06:49:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.230.82.82; posting-account=vICoKAoAAACvprQdoU1Fu4jhuX0G_mBQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.230.82.82 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <87cbc5e6-d44a-401f-ba40-d5cd00d29398@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada bindings for filesystems From: alb348@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:49:34 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-09-07T06:49:34-07:00 List-Id: Thanks indeed for your suggestions, Dirk and Dmitry. I must admit that I didn't know about GIO, and I had to look it up in Wikip= edia [1]. I am not sure if GIO is what I was looking for, because this solu= tion seems to be integrated within the Gnome framework, while I was looking= for something as simple as possible, something independent of any larger f= ramework. I don't want to add unnecessary infrastructures, if I can avoid i= t. After all, I simply need to access some filesystem functions, so why sho= uld I need Gnome?=20 The stumbling block, for me, is that I have no experience with writing bind= ings, and I doubt I would be able to create bindings for the extended attri= butes. That is why I was looking for available ready-made solutions. Someth= ing along the lines of what Dirk was suggesting: bindings to low-level func= tions of the filesystem. Has anyone here some experience with binding Ada to low-level (filesystem) = functions? Could you at least point me to the right direction to doing that= ?=20 Thanks Alby [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIO_(GNOME)