From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Standard libraries (Was: Environment variables)
Date: 1996/11/16
Date: 1996-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.848203014@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56kocf$65k@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl
Geert said
'As far as I have seen (looking at forest, I don't have the standard you
mention as it is not public) this binding is very Unix specific and
only meant for Unix systems. So rather than defining an interface that
defines a consistent subset of the functionality most common platforms
have, it takes one (Unix) and wraps a thin layer around the standard C
library so it can be used in Ada."
Well it is POSIX specific rather than Unix specific, many non-Unix systems
have promised Posix compliance (including incidentally at one point OS/2).
Certainly for example NT provides POSIX compliance and so does VMS.
Yes, it is not necessarily portable to arbitrary non-POSIX compliant
environments but this discussion arose in the context of environment
variables, which are particular to Unix and Unix-like systems in any case.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-30 0:00 Environment variables Christopher J Arnold
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-11-01 0:00 ` David Shochat
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Standard libraries (Was: Environment variables) Geert Bosch
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Environment variables David Emery
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Taylor
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Christopher J Arnold
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-31 0:00 ` James Rogers
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