[fpc-devel] Linux Signals

[Nikolai Zhubr]

02.01.2011 22:46, Sven Barth:
> On 02.01.2011 18:16, Andrew Brunner wrote:
>> I'm really surprised that I come off as sounding pro any OS.
>> Personally, I'm the type of person to remove Windows 7 from my brand
>> new laptop just to run Ubuntu. I think there is though, some sort of
>> deep seeded resentment towards event driven methods.
>>
>> So back to the topic... As it stands I do have SIGIO issues and am
>> working on epoll. But since sigaction is preferable I'm searching for
>> anyone with information as to how to get the kernel to define my
>> sigaction and associate it with socket methods not Terminal IO. I
>> think there is a flag I can set - I just don't have the value or name.
>
> If you're desperate enough you could look how the Wine developers
> implemented Windows' event mechanism on Linux...

LOL, this was also my first idea when I started thinking about porting 
my app to linux. Subsequently it prooved absolutely unnecessary. 
Moreover, I found that epoll-based implementation is much safer than 
winapi-based implementation regarding both programmer's mistakes and 
corner-cases at runtime. Definitely, epoll inventors were pretty smart 
in this respect, imho.

[Sorry for getting offtopic again, I promise to stop at this point.]

Nikolai

>
> Regards,
> Sven
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