RE: howto make system calls (newbie question)

["Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Pascal Obry [mailto:p.obry@wanadoo.fr]

>> is NO, at least not yet.  Even Pascal Obry's effort is not 100% complete.

> Note that it was not the goal anyway.

I wasn't trying to imply that was the goal.  I simply meant that, despite
the fact your binding is the most complete, not even it had everything.

> I have built up a binding just to have
> the most common features (working with the environment and launching
external
> program) and only the ones I needed for a project to achieve portability
> between UNIX and Windows. And this has proved to be successful, I use
Florist
> under Linux and my binding under Win32. I have large distributed
application
> (yes using GLADE) that I have ported from Windows to Linux (that's the
trend
> here) without changing a single line :) Only one feature was not working.
My
> project was send e-mail by launching an NT program... To solve this I have
> done an SMTP library that I do distribute too... see my homepage.
>
> In anycase, some POSIX features will be hard to do under Win32 or you'll
need
> to build a shared library.
>
> Pascal.

I didn't mean to undermine your POSIX binding, or be demeaning in any way.
Your binding is an excellent product, and I'm sure there are many grateful
recipients out there.  I know I am one of them, because I borrowed some of
the
pieces from yours to incorporated into mine.

My comment was meant as a response to "It's already in POSIX. Why bother
adding it to the Ada standard?".  It had no bearing on the quality or
purpose
of your binding.

Frank