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,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0d6e1170f161f0c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-08 23:55:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Peter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: gnat 3.14 RAW Socket support ? Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 08:53:41 +0100 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1036828502 91139 137.194.161.2 (9 Nov 2002 07:55:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 07:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30622 Date: 2002-11-09T08:53:41+01:00 Last year I wrote a telecom application using gnat 3.13 on top of Red Hat 7.0. Since I had really limited socket needs I implemented some thin bindings myself that supported the Packet_Socket. The whole experience with Packet or Raw socket was however it was very poor documented for Linux. In the latest 3.14 release of gnat I have seen there is built in Socket support. Has anyone tried using that built in support with Raw or Packet sockets ? This is only a 5000 line hobby project, but it would feel good to make the code a bit more portable than what I believe it to be today, different Unixes using different formats for Raw/Packet sockets. If it would be portable even too the Windows platform, that would be even better. Regards Peter Atterfj�ll @home peter@atterfjall.pp.se