[fpc-devel] simpleipc issues

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15/09/15 13:33, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:
> This is because Michael Van Canneyt pointed me to "man sem_overview".
> The first Google search pointed me to
> http://linux.die.net/man/7/sem_overview  where I found the "Named
> semaphores" with functions sem_open,  sem_close etc. with the
> description that they can be used across processes. A quick search in
> FPC sources pointed me again to the cthreads unit.

All semaphore use has been removed from the cthreads unit in the mean time.

They also should not be used on OS X anymore, because Apple forbids 
their use in applications submitted to their appstore (I guess because 
it is difficult for system frameworks to automatically determine whether 
they are only used in safe way; i.e., in a way that doesn't make the 
codesigned host application into a proxy for any other application to 
carry out operations on their behalf).


Jonas