2009/5/14 Koenraad Lelong <fpas...@brouwerij.homelinux.net>: > > My "big" logs are 1.6M per day, but they are about 5000 lines at the end > of the day. Wouldn't it be a waste to read the last line of such a big > file ? > My last remark was about sending a signal via php (it does support > sending signals) and then writing the desired value to a file which > would be a single line, and then php reads this file. There could be > problems with concurrency, although the website will only be available > at home, so the number of possible users will be limited. > I will read about IPC and sockets. Do you have any good references at > hand about these ? I think googling will be difficult, but I will.
as Joost mentioned, TSimpleIPCServer is available for fpc (i haven't used it, though). otherwise you can look at the bind(2) manpage for an example of sockets in linux. henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal