Re: Choose Ada flyer

[jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)]

: Of course NT is NOT a relevant platform here, since it is
: not POSIX compliant. Yes, you could implement some subset
: of POSIX in this environment, and even by fiddling, most
: of it, but it is not clear that this is really worth while
: if all you want is specific features (I must say I was
: unaware of the POSIX standard including record locking,
: but there is a lot of stuff there :-)

I understand the 'POSIX subsystem' will be gone from NT 5.0
(or by whatever name). Not that anyone ever took it seriously.

As far as POSIX goes, I am not really sure. The 1992 standard
has, AFAIK, only file locking, not record locking. For some reason,
I though the next standard would have record locking. But it is too
expensive (as a interested individual) to stay current.

In practice I have my own File_IO package which implements such items
for the platforms I use myself.

Jerry.

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