[fpc-pascal] TThread.WaitFor not returning?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 9/17/08, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Delphi has code in its WaitFor function that prevents this deadlock
>  from occuring.  They basically wait on the SyncEvent and the handle of
>  the thread, calling CheckSynchonize when the SyncEvent triggers.
>
>  I'm not sure if this is possible with fpc, but I'm sure there must be
>  a solution.

Umm, and TThread.WaitFor is not virtual, so I can't override it
either. :-(  I can't see any CheckSynchronize call in the unix
implementation of TThread, so is might be a bug.

I'll raise this issue in the fpc-devel mailing list and see what they say.
Thanks everybody for responding.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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