[Mono-list] Mono.Unix inside Mono.Posix?

[Kornél Pál]

The namespace Mono.Unix is in Mono.Posix.dll it is not a bug. It's by desing
and should not be changed to preserve compatibility with older versions. And
I think there is no need for a separate assembly.

An assembly can contain any namespace. It is usual even for MS .NET or
standard CLI assemblies to contain namespaces that differ from the assembly
name. For example look at mscorlib.dll it conatins Microsoft.Win32 and
System namespaces along with subnamespaces.

Two different assembly can contain the same namespace.
For example System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission is in System.dll altough you
could think that it is in System.Web.dll.

.NET Framework SDK specifies tha assembly of the type because it would be
difficult to guess the assembly.

The fact that the namespace Mono.Unix is in Mono.Posix.dll is not a bug.

If it is documented anywhere (MonoDoc, FAQ, ...) that there is a
Mono.Unix.dll it is a bug in the documentation but is not a bug in the
assembly.

Kornél

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Portmann" <bportmann at yahoo.com>
To: <mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:33 PM
Subject: [Mono-list] Mono.Unix inside Mono.Posix?


> I've started using the classes in the Mono.Unix and have noticed
> something strange about them.  One must include the Mono.Posix
> assembly instead of the expected (by me) Mono.Unix as demonstrated by
> this simple test case:
>
> prompt> cat test.cs
> using System;
> using Mono.Unix;
>
> public class Test
> {
>  public static void Main (string[] args)
>  {
>    string currentDir = UnixDirectory.GetCurrentDirectory ();
>    Console.WriteLine ("Current Directory = {0}", currentDir);
>  }
> }
>
> prompt> mcs -r:Mono.Unix test.cs
> error CS0006: Cannot find assembly `Mono.Unix'
> Log:
> Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
>
> prompt> mcs -r:Mono.Posix test.cs
> prompt> mono test.exe
> Current Directory = /Users/me/src/Messages
>
> This is non-intuitive and took me a bit to figure out (I had to
> download the source code to find that Mono.Unix is in the Mono.Posix
> directory).  Monodoc shows both of these assemblies to be at the same
> level so I would expect the first method above to work.
>
> Is this a bug or am I just being dense?
>
> Question 2: Actually, the only method I need (so far) is
> Mono.Unix.access to find out if a file has read access.  Is there a
> way to find this out using a method in System.
>
>
>
>
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