[fpc-pascal] how to use signals in freepascal?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Xiangrong Fang wrote:

> 2015-03-17 16:28 GMT+08:00 Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de>:
>       As there are similar concepts implemented in fpc and Lazarus in a cross-platform manner, could you give the reason why you want too use platform-specific (low level)
>       concepts like Unix-Signals (or Windows messages) ? (I don't doubt there are in some special projects.)
> 
> Actually, I do *not* insist on using unix signals in a cross-platform way. I just need a simple IPC mechanism, without the hassle of e.g. a socket server.​

Then the simpleipc unit is for you. It does just that.

Michael.