Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On unix, an alternate solution is to use fpSelect (Function
fpSelect(N:cint;readfds,writefds,exceptfds:pfdSet;TimeOut:PTimeVal):cint;
) and specify a time-out value.
I would go for this.
With the very minor caveat that different variants of fpSelect() hide
the OS-
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Ludo Brands wrote:
On 03/01/2013 07:10 PM, Krzysztof wrote:
Hi,
I'm reading that I can't use timer in daemon because daemon core is
based on thread.
daemonapp is using threads but nothing stops you from daemonizing your
app yourself with a simple fork.
The threads are
On 03/01/2013 07:10 PM, Krzysztof wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm reading that I can't use timer in daemon because daemon core is
> based on thread.
daemonapp is using threads but nothing stops you from daemonizing your
app yourself with a simple fork.
> So I'm trying to create another thread which simul
On 01.03.2013 21:17, Krzysztof wrote:
I know how sleep blocking works in thread :) . I'm just wondering what
is better, sleep or RTL event or something else
You might know, but we answered to Leonardo who does not seem to know
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I know how sleep blocking works in thread :) . I'm just wondering what is
better, sleep or RTL event or something else
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:28:20 -0800 (PST)
Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>[...]
>
> Well, as far as I know, sleep is no thread safe, it will block your app.
sleep blocks only the thread.
Mattias
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On 01.03.2013 19:28, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
From: Krzysztof
To: fpc-pascal
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
>
> From: Krzysztof
>To: fpc-pascal
>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 o
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(6)
because daemon will hung on terminate. So I have two ideas:
1. Create loo
