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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: ZFS/BtrFS bindings
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:25:20 -0700
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On 07/15/2013 07:55 PM, Dufr wrote:
>
> So, my next question is: how much would a hired programmer need to write
> one-platform-only (say, Windows or Linux) Ada bindings for *some* ZFS
> functions? I am saying "some" because what I actually need is only the
> support for extended attributes (xattr). Any guess?

That would depend on how screwed up the C that you're binding to is. I wouldn't 
think it would be very much of an effort, but C is often far more complicated 
than it needs to be.

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Jeff Carter
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