[fpc-pascal] Sockets in FPC

[Lukas Gradl]

Nataraj S Narayan schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> I need to write a daemon on Linux which will wait on a user defined
> port (say 30000) and parse the socket input to write into a Mysql
> database. Can anybody suggest examples in FPC ?
> 
> Presently , I am using TCL for this. The problem is the behaviour of
> Gets function in TCL.. It is buffered with EOF as newline.
> 
> But i need the socket to have a user defined char like ':' and it
> should be  unbuffered too. I mean dont want an Enter keyed to be at
> the end.
> 
> We use various GPRS modules on embedded devices, each with its own
> nuances of terminating a string. So we can't afford to have a 'normal'
> gets or readln behaviours.

Take a look at synapse and the examples provided with the source and on 
their page. I remember there was a well documented example for a 
ftp-server, which uses exactly the techniques you need for building a 
service.

To daemonize a program on linux there are quite some examples on the net.

regards
Lukas

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