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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,50b41333767ba40f
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Using Posix with Apex
Date: 1997/02/10
Message-ID: <dewar.855587799@merv>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 217822157
references: <32ee8e2c.1005715@NEWS.CLOUD9.NET>
 <mheaney-ya023280002901970740590001@news.ni.net> <32F0FD1F.4FF3@cci.de>
organization: New York University
newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-02-10T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


Peter said

<<This solution assumes, that the Length of Output_File_Name.Name equals
the length of The_Name. A POSIX_String may have a different length than
the Ada-String, to which it is converted by POSIX.To_String, since
individual characters might get expanded in two or more characters by
this translation. (POSIX 1003.5b Chapt. 2.4.3.2).>>

Sure, this is true from a formal point of view, but do you really know
any system on which this is actually true. I suspect that in practice
the code you refer to does not have a portability problem in practice.