[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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