>________________________________ > From: Krzysztof <dib...@wp.pl> >To: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> >Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 3:10 PM >Subject: [fpc-pascal] Solution for Timer in daemon > > >Hi, > > >I'm reading that I can't use timer in daemon because daemon core is based on >thread. So I'm trying to create another thread which simulate timer. My >interval is quite big (~1-5 minutes), so I can't just use sleep(60000) because >daemon will hung on terminate. So I have two ideas: > > >1. Create loop with short sleep(1000) which on each loop check if main >interval occur and check if daemon is terminated >2. Create loop with RTL event with RtlEventWaitFor(Event, 60000) and daemon on >terminate just send event to worker so it immediately exit. > > >What is the best efficient solution? Maybe exists another way? > > >Regards.
Well, as far as I know, sleep is no thread safe, it will block your app. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
