[fpc-pascal] Solution for Timer in daemon

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

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> From: Krzysztof <dibo20 at wp.pl>
>To: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> 
>Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 3:10 PM
>Subject: [fpc-pascal] Solution for Timer in daemon
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>Hi,
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>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(60000) because daemon will hung on terminate. So I have two ideas:
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>1. Create loop with short sleep(1000) which on each loop check if main interval occur and check if daemon is terminated
>2. Create loop with RTL event with RtlEventWaitFor(Event, 60000) and daemon on terminate just send event to worker so it immediately exit.
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>What is the best efficient solution? Maybe exists another way?
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>Regards.

Well, as far as I know, sleep is no thread safe, it will block your app.



Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com