Package: Util.Files

Description

Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Thomas Wolf.
This piece of software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with this distribution, see file "GPL.txt". If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
As a special exception from the GPL, if other files instantiate generics from this unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GPL. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GPL.

Version: 1.1

Author:
Thomas Wolf (TW) <twolf AT acm DOT org>
Purpose:
Provides a generic function to unconditionally open (or create) a file.
Tasking Semantics
Neither task- nor abortion-safe.
Storage Semantics
No dynamic storage allocation.

Header

package Util.Files is

 
pragma Preelaborate;

Known child units

Util.Files.Config(package)
Util.Files.Text_IO(package)

Other Items:

generic
   type File_Type is limited private;
   type File_Mode is (<>);
   with procedure Open
          (File : in out File_Type;
           Mode : in     File_Mode;
           Name : in     String;
           Form : in     String);
   with procedure Create
          (File : in out File_Type;
           Mode : in     File_Mode;
           Name : in     String;
           Form : in     String);
procedure Open_G
  (File : in out File_Type;
   Mode : in     File_Mode;
   Name : in     String;
   Form : in     String := "");
First tries to open the file; if that fails, tries to create the file. 
end Util.Files;
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