From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT
Date: 1998/02/23
Date: 1998-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.888252880@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34F1683A.6149F19A@cl.cam.ac.uk
Markus said
<<I was assuming that POSIX.5 is or will be the Ada equivalent of
POSIX.1 for C. POSIX.1 for C is extremely widely implemented and highly
helpful for portable programming on Unix. Any C programmer switching
under Unix from C to Ada will expect to have the equivalent of
POSIX.1 available under the new language, because under Unix
you have to be able to deal with processes, signals, terminals and
other functions that are beyond the Ada RM. Therefore, I considered
an implementation of POSIX.5 to be urgently needed.
What is wrong with that?
>>
OK, so you answered my last question. You have not read the standard.
I think you should, it would be particularly interesting to get your
reaction to the abstraction level at which it has been designed.
I generally prefer very thin bindings for standards like this, precisely
because it allows easily portability of documentation and existing
knowledge.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-23 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-21 0:00 question re Ada equivalent of C function David Fisher
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-21 0:00 ` David Fisher
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-22 0:00 ` frc
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` frc
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-24 0:00 ` question re Ada equivalent of C function Dale Stanbrough
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Andi Kleen
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Testing exception handlers James M. Darlack
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` question re Ada equivalent of C function Robert Dewar
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