From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)
Date: 8 May 2001 07:16:45 -0500
Date: 2001-05-08T07:16:45-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PyWUgPnrfxka@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9d87id$oll15@news.kvaerner.com
In article <9d87id$oll15@news.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
>
> Marin David Condic wrote in message <9d6c89$1nd$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
>>Its nice to find myself being totally agreed with! :-) Maybe you can expand
>>on the idea. What sort of standard libraries would you like to see in Ada?
>
> The obvious ones. E.g. console I/O, adafied sockets, buffered I/O, national
> language support (NLS), turbo pascal style strings, NLS string comparison,
> file utilities (expand wildcards, get file names from a directory, delete
> file, set file protection, etc), dynamic library support (load library,
> symbols under program control), standard datatypes for system calls,
> standard datatypes for the C library.
Console I/O - secure operating systems are likely to prevent a program
run by an ordinary user from accessing the console, to prevent
password grabbing attacks against the operator.
Turbo Poascal style strings - please describe. Given Ada String,
Bounded String and Unbounded Strings, I am hard-pressed to thing
of capabilities that are missing.
Set File Protection - this certainly cannot be made uniform across
operating systems. VMS has SOGW, Unix (at least some) have one fewer.
A major way operating systems distinguish themselves is by differences
in their ACLs.
Standard datatypes for system calls - And what good will a VMS-style
descriptor do me on a Unix system ?
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-04 20:56 howto make system calls (newbie question) Beard, Frank
2001-05-07 14:42 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-07 16:41 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-07 18:25 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-08 20:30 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-08 21:13 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-08 20:23 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-08 7:34 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-08 12:16 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-05-08 14:12 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-08 16:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-08 21:40 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-08 22:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-09 16:00 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-09 17:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-09 8:25 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-09 12:28 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-09 16:13 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-10 7:17 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-08 13:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-12 2:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-05-12 13:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-14 13:29 ` Ada Libraries (was Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)) Marin David Condic
2001-05-14 19:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-05-14 22:35 ` Ada Libraries Marin David Condic
2001-05-14 19:27 ` Ada Libraries (was Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)) tmoran
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2001-05-10 21:22 howto make system calls (newbie question) Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 20:11 Beard, Frank
2001-05-11 16:03 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-10 19:54 Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 20:41 ` Pascal Obry
2001-05-09 22:28 Beard, Frank
2001-05-09 22:19 Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 6:18 ` Pascal Obry
2001-05-10 12:40 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-10 15:44 ` Stephen Leake
2001-05-09 22:07 Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 12:34 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-09 21:42 Mike Brenner
2001-05-07 17:04 Beard, Frank
2001-05-04 21:08 Beard, Frank
2001-05-04 22:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-07 14:47 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-09 13:41 ` Noam Kloos
2001-05-09 14:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-16 12:45 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-05-16 19:50 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-09 18:29 ` GianLuigi Piacentini
2001-05-09 19:18 ` David Starner
2001-05-04 7:51 Lars Lundgren
2001-05-04 8:16 ` L.H.Jeong
2001-05-04 8:47 ` Lars Lundgren
2001-05-04 12:12 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-05-04 15:49 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-04 17:46 ` tmoran
2001-05-04 18:46 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-05 7:01 ` tmoran
2001-05-04 16:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-04 11:00 ` Noam Kloos
2001-05-04 12:01 ` Lars Lundgren
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