[fpc-pascal] lnet for TCP daemon

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Sep 12 14:40:44 CEST 2013


In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> > common request, and since the fpc-Team some time ago enabled 
> > TThread.Queue in the RTL, this is doable in a straight forward, 
> > "fpc-ish" way (portable but Delphi compatible).
> 
> Although for certain types of usage being able to get directly to the 
> hardware (or strictly, to the lowest level the OS supports for normal 
> users) is absolutely essential, e.g. if timing information has to be 
> appended to each character or if records of control signal changes have 
> to be inserted.

True, but that is rarely done, since you would have to disable FIFOs too
then, since you usually can't queue such signals (like e.g. BREAK).



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