[fpc-pascal]Version 1.0.6 Prerelease is out !

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Adam Naumowicz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Adam Naumowicz wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > >
> > > > The versions available are dos (go32v2), win32, linux, os2, freebsd, beos,
> > > > sunos/Solaris, netbsd (beta).
> > >
> > > I noticed that the solaris version has no unit equivalent to 'linux' unit
> > > under linux (signal handling etc.). I remember that the first 1.0.4
> > > pre-release of solaris port had 'linux' unit adopted to provide similar
> > > functionality under solaris. Isn't that included in the 1.0.6 version ?
> >
> > It has been replaced by the posix unit.
>
> O.K. I should have thought of that :-)
>
> > The solaris port is a 'posix' port: We are going to base all posix-
> > compliant systems on a 'posix' unit, which will contain the needed posix
> > calls for the system/dos/sysutils calls.
>
> I've just taken a glance at the sources and couldn't find signal handling
> support there. Is it a part of the unimplemented calls ?

Signal handling and IPC are the 'main' missing points in the posix.
I also think that file locking is not yet supported.

Michael.