Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG!emery From: emery@MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG (Emery) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada on Unix Message-ID: <8910022048.AA28078@mbunix.mitre.org> Date: 2 Oct 89 20:48:19 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 > voder!pyramid!infmx!bgolden@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bernard Golden) writes: >Keith Shillington (I think that's the right last name) from Telesoft called >me and we had a very good discussion regarding ADA and its capabilities >on UNIX. It appears that no capabilities of ADA are sacrificed by running >on UNIX, although UNIX itself provides some facilities (e.g., message queues) >that might make some language features not so important. Does this mean that Telesoft supports non-blocking IO from multiple tasks doing IO in a single Unix process? (i.e. if one task calls text_io.put_line, will other tasks in the same program/process still run?) If so, I'd be very interested in hearing how that works. We've discussed this at great detail in the POSIX-Ada binding WG. dave emery emery@aries.mitre.org