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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c971df1c3d047387 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-05 21:08:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-east!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: getpid(), atoi(), time functions in Ada 95 Date: 6 Sep 2000 04:01:55 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <8p4fjj$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:511 Date: 2000-09-06T04:01:55+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 01:27:53 GMT, K. Banerjee wrote: >Do these Unix/C functions have corresponding functions in Ada 95? (I'll be >working on Solaris.) atoi is equivelent to 'Value; most of the time functions should have analogs in the Ada.Calender package and elsewhere in the standard library; but getpid doesn't since it's Unix-centric. You can either wrap the C getpid function (a moment's effort), or, if you need more extensive Unix support, you can use Florist, an implementation of Posix.5. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org I knew all of the floors in my high school, and none of the ceilings. - Chris Painter