On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:42:21 +0100 Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason is that because of the fork/vfork construct these OS'es > use, there is no way to report an error to the parent process except > by exit codes. This is not true btw: you can use shared memory. Set up a variable in the parent process so the child process knows where to write what happened plus error codes. Don't know how difficult it is to do in fpc though, but I guess it's just as "simple" as in C using fpmmap and friends ? Micha _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal