Re: Ada Libraries (was Re: howto make system calls (newbie question))

[tmoran@acm.org]

> The question would be, how easily would the Claw.Sockets stuff port
> to - say - a Linux environment?
  My understanding is that winsock is pretty similar to Unix sockets,
so the translation there shouldn't be hard.  Claw.Sockets of course
uses the Windows mechanisms to be notified of asynchronous events, so
that would have to change to Linux mechanisms.  The Ada-ification
stuff, parameters, exceptions, controlled types, protected objects,
etc, could presumably remain unchanged.  I suppose there could be some
whole areas of functionality that wouldn't port well.  The only thing
that springs to mind is the absence of asynchronous sockets in WinCE,
but my understanding is they were used mostly in older, single-tasking
Windows 3.1 environments.