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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-07 10:28:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ From: Ted Dennison References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbvsr$a02@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B69DB35.4412459E@home.com> <3B6F312F.DA4E178E@home.com> Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 13:28:02 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:28:02 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11511 comp.lang.c:72716 comp.lang.c++:80697 Date: 2001-08-07T17:28:02+00:00 List-Id: In article , Larry Kilgallen says... > >> Note that pipe() is an entry point into a POSIX operating system. Unless >> you have POSIX Ada bindings, you are going to have to use the C interface >> to call this thing at some point. The same goes for whatever programming >> language you are using. > >POSIX is not an operating system. > >What makes you think I am going to call POSIX at some point ? >I have not done so as yet, after 13 years of Ada programming. >Can you tell me when this will happen ? There are POSIX Ada bindings, which I have used on occasion. However, they really don't offer all that much that one can't get from standard Ada. Usually I see them used to get directory information (one of the glaring omissions from the Ada standard). But at best that just gets you pseudo-portability, as POSIX itself isn't supported on many of the OS'es that support Ada. So if you are going to write non-portable code, in most cases its easier to just "go native" and use the OS itself. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com