[fpc-pascal] lnet for TCP daemon

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk
Thu Sep 12 09:35:32 CEST 2013


Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 07:22 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> I'd normally use a thread for this, but I've already got lnet's telnet 
>> client running in the program so would rather stick to the same 
>> library if possible.
>>
> 
> AFAIK, Lnet does not do threading internally (as does AsyncPro or - 
> partly - Indy), so if you need to wait for TCP input while doing other 
> things in your program, you need to do your own thread, anyway.

[Nod] Works adequately for a telnet-based terminal though.

> I switched from Lnet to Synapse lately, as same seems to a lot of 
> provide usable protocols. Synapse does not provide internal threads, 
> either.

True. Synapse's protocol support is second to none, but in the current 
case there's really no protocol involved- grab/store data and that's it.

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