[Gambas-devel] System calls?

[Jean-Francois Perreault]

would a component like that allow to access functions in abitrary libs 
that don't have a gb component ?
like, if I want to access pam_save_state() in libpam but there isn't a 
libpam component made for libpam yet ,
I could use it anyway with something like this dlopen component you 
suggest ?
(this would open gambas to all the lib that will never have a component)

Rob wrote:

>On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:58, Ahmad Kamal wrote:
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>>    Just wondering, had VB been limited only to VB internal
>>functions, it would have been very limited, fortunately we had
>>Windows APIs! I was wondering if there is any mechanism to
>>enable us to call standard unix sys calls (or regular C libs)
>>from within GB (like Dlls from VB). I know that that doesn't
>>exist up till now, I am asking if it is possible to implement
>>such a mechanism. Would be pretty interesting huh.
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>A while ago I started to think about writing a sort of "dlopen 
>component" which would try to do much of what you describe, but 
>so far I haven't had to because I haven't run into anything I 
>can't do by running a command line program on a pipe and 
>receiving its output in realtime (which is difficult in windows 
>and impossible in VB.) I think it's only a matter of time, 
>though.
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>Rob
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