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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,adb9b9207aecb4b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news2.telebyte.nl!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.nask.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!atlantis.news.tpi.pl!news.tpi.pl!not-for-mail From: Wojtek Narczynski Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: epoll Ada binding Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:45:40 +0200 Organization: tp.internet - http://www.tpi.pl/ Message-ID: References: <311c6b78.0410181100.76f4e8ab@posting.google.com> <311c6b78.0410182103.110885b7@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: avt218.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: nemesis.news.tpi.pl 1098352155 791 83.27.53.218 (21 Oct 2004 09:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:49:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5567 Date: 2004-10-21T11:45:40+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:48:00 +0200, Mark Lorenzen wrote: > OK, so it requires a special run-time system. If the tasks are I/O > aware, will the "usual" Ada task behaviour be preserved? Yes, it is my plan do "stay in Ada". I don't think there is going to be a problem with that. FSU Threads (userspace) used to be used to pass ACATS tests on platforms which had problematic native threading libraries. > But instead of patching the run-time system, I'm not really patching it. I am trying to create yet another "flavor". > I was thinking of a library which could provide Ada equivalents for > SDLs process and service constructs. You mean this SDL http://www.sdl-forum.org? I merely know that it exists, would you recommend studying it to somebody intersted in building networking applications? Do you think SMTP (my primary protocol of interest right now) would be amenable to such (formal) treatment? After all S - stands for Sloppy ;-) Regards, Wojtek