Re: Creating tempfile takes too long: GNAT or Windows bug?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrnaqasl9.93n.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no...
>
> In Gnat.OS_Lib
>
>    function File_Time_Stamp (Name : String) return OS_Time;
>    --  Given the name of a file, Name, obtains and returns the time stamp.
>    --  This function can be used for an unopend file.
>
>    procedure Delete_File (Name : String; Success : out Boolean);
>
> :-)
>
O.K. For a hack, using a compiler dependent package is probably O.K. -
Assuming for the moment that the environment in question is a Gnat
environment. You might not have it if you use another compiler.


> > feels like an unnatural act and invariably complicates the job. Just
another
> > data point indicating it would be useful to have an Ada OS and that the
> > argument "Well, you can always bind to blah blah blah..." is seldom
> > compelling. :-)
>
> Well if you drag the argument further you might end up with "why use Ada
> at all?".
>
But you'd have to drag the argument pretty hard across some rough terrain.
:-) Its one thing to say "My project needs all these large C libraries - why
do I want to complicate my life by using something other than C to implement
my project?" (And this is generally how it goes - look at projects that rely
heavily on any significant library and no matter how much better some other
language may be, they very seldom go far afield from whatever that library
was written in.) Its quite another thing to say "My project doesn't make
extensive use of an OS or library, but I'm going to avoid Ada anyway
because, well, just because!" :-)

MDC
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