[fpc-pascal] lnet for TCP daemon

[Sven Barth]

Am 16.09.2013 13:38, schrieb Michael Schnell:
>> there is no LCL dependence in theory, but other eventloop systems 
>> might assume they themselves implement the blocking part. (e.g. to 
>> wake up because of OS messages) Services, console network server 
>> implementations etc probably already do that both on Delphi and Lazarus.
>
> In fact the LCL seems to rely on the "It blocks for a maximum time" 
> (as you said).
>
> While this might be "good enough" for GUI events, there might be 
> instances where we either would want either (1) a faster reaction 
> (than the said "maximum time") on events that are not to be pushed 
> through the RTL event queue or (2) avoid the processor overhead that 
> is imposed by the main thread leaving the block after the "maximum time".
>
> Regarding (2), I suppose it would be just nice to be able to define 
> this time (I need to check the sources or the docs to find out).
>
CheckSynchronize has a timeout parameter: 
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/classes/checksynchronize.html

Regards,
Sven