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This library is a tentative Modula-3 binding of the Posix interfaces.

Newsgroups: srcext.m3
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From: swart (Garret Swart)
Subject: Modula 3 binding to POSIX 
To: srcext.m3
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Sender: swart@src.dec.com (Garret Swart)
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Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
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Date: 19 Apr 1990 1356-PDT (Thursday)
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This message contains a proposed Modula 3 binding to IEEE POSIX 1003.1 
and portions of IEEE POSIX 1003.4A.

These interfaces have not been implemented but they are similar enough 
to the Topaz Modula 2+ Unix interfaces (see SRC report 21) so that 
I don't think there should be many problems.

At this point I am interested in both comments on the interface itself 
and volunteers who would willing to dive into the Modula 3 runtime 
and implement these interfaces layered on a BSD based POSIX system.  While 
I can provide consulting help (and possibly the sources for the layered 
Modula 2+ based interface) I don't have time to actually do the work 
myself.

Thanks to Paul McJones and John Ellis for their comments.

Garret Swart
(415) 853-2220

