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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: System calls - GNAT library vs. direct bindings
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:06:22 +0200
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Maciej Sobczak writes:
> Let's suppose that the problem is a network-aware application on the
> POSIX system. Ada doesn't know about network per RM, so we have to
> look around for libraries.
> One option is to use the GNAT library that has some package for
> sockets.
> Another is to write thin wrappers that bind directly to relevant
> system calls (socket, connect, read, write, close, bind, listen,
> accept, select - that's it for the basic stuff).

There is also adasockets: http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/adasockets

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Ludovic Brenta.