Hi Sigfried! On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:09 PM, wrote:
> I want to recursively crawl a directory tree on windows using > cygwin/gnu/ada. I'm not sure if I should use the unix function opendir > (and friends) or the windows functions FindFirstFile and FindNextFile. > Maybe the opendir would be preferable since it would be portable. It's not a question of portability. Cygwin goes to great lengths to create a Unix/Linux compatible environment. If you want to use the _Cygwin_ version of Ada, then you really should use opendir/readdir. > Can someone point me to some examples of cygwin/ada programs calling a > standard function like opendir? This is not really a Cygwin question, but maybe this will help: https://www2.adacore.com/gap-static/GNAT_Book/html/rts/g-dirope__adb.htm Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple