From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Directories.Copy_File behavior
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:25:46 +0100
Date: 2011-02-20T21:25:46+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vq7xo8walzeukk@jellix.jlfencey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ijrsvm$es$1@speranza.aioe.org
wrote:
>> > The Windows CopyFile function takes a BOOL parameter bFailIfExists,
>> > so is it implementation-defined what Ada.Directories.Copy_File does?
>> > That's not very satisfactory.
>>
>> But I think it's imp-def even without that BOOL.
>>
>> In practise how many OS are you going to support? You may find that
>
> No, it's how many *compilers* for a single OS are you going to support?
Well, how many Ada05 compilers are there?
And well, looking at GNAT's code, it seems, it overwrites any existing file,
so assuming "if in doubt, GNAT is the ARM", Copy_File shall have overwriting
semantics. ;)
Vinzent.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-19 22:37 Ada.Directories.Copy_File behavior tmoran
2011-02-19 23:01 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 0:01 ` tmoran
2011-02-20 0:31 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-20 11:01 ` Martin
2011-02-20 20:19 ` tmoran
2011-02-20 20:25 ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
2011-02-21 18:05 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-02-21 19:26 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-21 19:41 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-02-21 20:42 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-26 2:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-26 3:22 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-01 3:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-26 2:34 ` Randy Brukardt
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