Re: [Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

2016-11-25 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 01:01:13 -0500 Andrew Haines via Lazarus wrote: >[...] > 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 i

Re: [Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

2016-11-20 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2016-11-20 03:50, Lars via Lazarus wrote: It just makes me scared that there is this hack/fix needed. No need to worry, the Lazarus code is outdated. That fix is already in FPC 2.6.4 too, and any FPC release after that. I've bee

Re: [Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

2016-11-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2016-11-20 03:50, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > It just makes me scared that there is this hack/fix needed. No need to worry, the Lazarus code is outdated. That fix is already in FPC 2.6.4 too, and any FPC release after that. I've been using SimplyIPC for many things and it has worked very well.

Re: [Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

2016-11-19 Thread Andrew Haines via Lazarus
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 thes

[Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

2016-11-19 Thread Lars via Lazarus
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