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Subject: Re: ISO/IEC 14519 - Ada POSIX binding
Date: 21 Jun 2003 22:45:48 -0500
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In article <m3brwrrrof.fsf@insalien.org>, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:

> As noted elsewhere in this thread, POSIX.5 uses an exception
> (Posix.Posix_Error) to report that an error occurred, and an
> "errno"-like variable to specify what kind of error occurred.  Thanks
> to the exception, a lot of the ugliness goes away, and thanks to the
> variable, it is easier to add new error codes to POSIX.5 without
> breaking existing apps.

Is that variable specific to a single task ?

How does one accomplish that without declaring it within the task ?

If it is not specific to a single task, how does one avoid conflict
between tasks on simultaneous errors ?