[fpc-pascal] Solution for Timer in daemon

[Sven Barth]

On 01.03.2013 19:28, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
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>> From: Krzysztof <dibo20 at wp.pl>
>> To: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
>> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 3:10 PM
>> Subject: [fpc-pascal] Solution for Timer in daemon
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm reading that I can't use timer in daemon because daemon core is based on thread. So I'm trying to create another thread which simulate timer. My interval is quite big (~1-5 minutes), so I can't just use sleep(60000) because daemon will hung on terminate. So I have two ideas:
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>> 1. Create loop with short sleep(1000) which on each loop check if main interval occur and check if daemon is terminated
>> 2. Create loop with RTL event with RtlEventWaitFor(Event, 60000) and daemon on terminate just send event to worker so it immediately exit.
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>> What is the best efficient solution? Maybe exists another way?
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>> Regards.
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> Well, as far as I know, sleep is no thread safe, it will block your app.

Sleep only blocks the current thread.

Regards,
Sven