You can get some hints from minilib https://sourceforge.net/p/minilib "socket" directory
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Xiangrong Fang <xrf...@gmail.com> wrote: > using the socket like read/write file is very convenient. This is the > first time I use fpc to write socket program, it is much easier than I used > Indy or ICS in Delphi several years ago. > > I hope to "modernize" or make it more stable, instead of deprecate it. Of > course deprecate Connect and use fpConnect + Sock2Text manually is not a > big deal. > > > 2013/4/16 Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> > >> >> On 16 Apr 2013, at 12:13, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> >> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: >>> >>>> As far as I can see, all errors are returned via inoutres/IOResult in >>>> the same way as happens with disk-based IO. >>>> >>> >>> Yes. An attempt is made to map some of the errors to I/O. Anyway, if sb >>> wants to support and modernize them, I have no problem with that. But >>> that >>> hasn't happened since 2005-2007 or so. >>> >> >> What needs to be modernised about it? It's not like our disk i/o error >> code handles many more different error codes, nor are those errors much >> more specific. I remember the old discussion, but I never understood how >> the error reporting of the sockets code and the generic I/O code differed >> in a way that made the former worse than the latter. >> >> >> That would also make it possible to directly map socketerror to >>> getlastresult/fpgeterrno, instead of caching it in another threadvar. >>> >> >> IIRC the problem with removing socketerror would be that it could easily >> break existing code (given that socketerror is not overwritten by calls >> other than those from the sockets unit). >> >> >> Jonas >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> fpc-pascal maillist - >> fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.**org<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> >> http://lists.freepascal.org/**mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal<http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > -- I am using last revision of Lazarus, FPC 2.6 on Windows XP SP3 Best Regards Zaher Dirkey
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