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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT
Date: 1998/02/22
Date: 1998-02-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sopbtwhj.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34F007C5.7D9F2D7@cl.cam.ac.uk


Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> It seems the standard packages that come with GNAT only cover
> what is defined in the Ada95 RM plus a few GNAT specific extentions.
> What is urgently missing for real Linux system development is Linux
> low-level access as well as an implementation of the full POSIX.5
> Ada API. Has this already been done somewhere or is any work on
> this in progress?
> 
> How widely implemented is the POSIX.5 API (standardized Ada versions
> of the common Unix system calls) anyway?

I would be very interested in such a thing too. I started to write my
own API based on code from Jesus Gonzalez Barahona, because the POSIX.5
draft doesn't seem to be available. Especially socket access in Ada needs
home-grown interfaces currently :(

-Andi




  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-02-22  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 ` 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
1998-02-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-21  0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1998-02-22  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-22  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-22  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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
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       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
1998-02-22  0:00         ` Linux/POSIX packages for GNAT Markus Kuhn
1998-02-22  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
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
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