[fpc-pascal] THandle in code that must compile also with Delphi

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:

> IMHO the universal handle (for e.g. IPC related handles and file handles) is
> not a portable concept to begin with.

I think the concept of a handle as an opaque type is universal. What 
isn't safe is any assumption of consistent behaviour, e.g. that select() 
may be applied to any type of handle or that a program's stdin/stdout 
might in practice be implemented by a socket.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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