Re: How to spawn, fork, and exec within Ada (Do you have small example program)

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Chris L writes:
> These care routinely done in C/C++. How can they be done in Ada? Do
> you have a short program example of these?
>
> Thank you,
> Christopher Lusardi

fork, exec, and spawn are specific to Unix and Unix-like systems; so
the answer depends on your compiler and operating system.  If GNAT on
Unix, GNU, or *BSD, look at GNAT.Expect.Non_Blocking_Spawn.

You can also "routinely" call any C function from an Ada program, so
if you insist, you can really fork and exec.  But that would be the
wrong (error-prone) way of achieving the same result.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.