From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9673880011dff8f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: fmdf@tiscali.it (fabio de francesco) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT and Florist Date: 11 Aug 2004 04:56:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.181.52.212 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1092225382 21501 127.0.0.1 (11 Aug 2004 11:56:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2667 Date: 2004-08-11T04:56:22-07:00 List-Id: Mark Lorenzen wrote in message news:... > Florist is an implementation of the ISO/IEC standard 14519 and defines > a binding the system calls and library functions defined by POSIX. > > The socket bindings in GNAT are good enough if you want to do socket > programming, but they are not a complete binding to POSIX. If you want > to use other POSIX functions such as shared memory, memoty locking, > process signalling, select() system call, address resolver, read(), > write(), readv(), writev() etc., then you should go for Florist. > > The ISO/IEC 14519 standard consists of nearly 900 pages, but it is > very clear and informative. It is actually a much better source for > learning POSIX than the usual C API. > > Regards, > - Mark Lorenzen Thank you. Is there any documentation on the use and the design of the Florist Library? Ciao, Fabio De Francesco.