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- From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
-
- -The most detailed discussion involved whether or not files should be
- -closed on an Exec. The Ada binding provides a Start_Process function,
- -which is a primitive that safely creates a new process. In the face
- -of Ada tasking, Fork and Exec are unsafe and cannot be used to
- -accomplish the results of a Start_Process call. Once one of these
- -unsafe primitives is issued, an application program is no longer under
- -the control of the Ada run time system; the operating system is
- -involved. ...
-
- Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought the specific task of
- 1003.5 was to provide Ada-language bindings to 1003.1, not to
- add functionality.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 42
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-