[fpc-pascal] Inter-process communication, a cautionary tale

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>
>> No need to apologize, I'm just curious where you got your info from. The 
>> implementation has been the same since day 1, which means your statement 
>> puzzles me.
>> 
>> So instead of re-inventing the wheel, maybe have a closer look again at the
>> standard IPC mechanisms.
>
> I will do, but I do note that 
> http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/rtl/ipc/index.html explicitly says 
> that "It works only on the linux operating system". Where's the source- I can 
> only see ./fpcsrc/rtl/unix/ipc.pp

I meant the SimpleIPC unit from the FCL:
http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net/docs/fcl/simpleipc/index.html

Michael.