On 11/19/2016 10:50 PM, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
Hi while researching help systems I came across the code which uses IPC to
communicate and see that people are adding stale pipe work arounds.
So this can't be resolved in the ipc code itself and must be in the
application? Just wondering why these work arounds are needed and when
they occur. The stale pipe code work around is at
https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/blob/upstream/components/chmhelp/packages/help/lhelpcontrol.pas
So does anyone who uses IPC have to be aware of this and add the work
around to all ipc code in all applications? Or it only happens in certain
cases? It just makes me scared that there is this hack/fix needed.
FPC now has this stale pipe detection included. The fix was added to the
code lazarus uses until the next official version of FPC was released
and went into the develop version of fpc in early 2012. At this point it
could probably be removed form lazarus since there have been multiple
releases of fpc since then.
https://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/blob/master/packages/fcl-process/src/unix/simpleipc.inc#L97
https://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/commit/439236b9df1e952ad0fc1da42f05851dfea459ac
Regards,
Andrew Haines
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