From: emery@mitre-bedford.arpa (David Emery)
Subject: Re: gethostname (Was: SunAda question)
Date: 21 Jul 93 14:56:58 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Jul21095658@goldfinger.mitre.org> (raw)
>Frankly, I'm offended! This completely violates everything that I've
>been taught about Ada functions! The actual parameters of a function
>should not be modified. A function should only return one value.
The Verdix package "Unix" is what is called a "thin binding", in that
it simply recasts an existing C operation, semantics and all, in Ada
syntax.
Your better solution is to use the POSIX/Ada binding. See
"POSIX.System_Name" and "POSIX.Host_Name" functions.
dave
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1993-07-21 14:56 David Emery [this message]
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1993-07-21 15:26 gethostname (Was: SunAda question) cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.
1993-07-21 10:27 Karl A. Nyberg
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