[fpc-pascal] What about signals.pp on win32?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Tiziano De Togni wrote:

> 
> I was trying to convert a C source to Pascal. It uses signals, and I thought
> that these things were not available on Win platforms.
> 
> Documentation talks about signals in oldlinux and baseunix units only (Linux).
> 
> Then I went on the signals.pp unit in:
> 
> C:\fpc\...\source\rtl\win32\signals.pp
> 
> 
> I understand the function signal, but I don't see a way to "Raise" a signal.

There isn't a proper way; 
Signals on windows have totally different semantics than on Linux/unix.
You should not try to imitate them.

> 
> (a second question is that I can't understand how to raise a signal under
> Linux without using the oldlinux unit)

use the fpKill etc functions in baseunix/unix. They have the same names as
the oldlinux ones, with 'fp' prepended.

Michael.