[fpc-pascal] TFPTimer wtih timer_create

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016, Fabio Luis Girardi wrote:

> Lazarus/Freepascal has some config to ignore a signal?

No, you must install this yourself using the unix,baseunix units.

Michael.
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> 2016-03-05 15:34 GMT-03:00 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
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>> On Sat, 5 Mar 2016, Fabio Luis Girardi wrote:
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>> Hi all!
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>>> I'm searching a way to implement a TFPTimer that don't uses threads. On
>>> Linux and FreeBSD I found the timer_create and family functions. My
>>> question is: What these functions has wrong?
>>>
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>> Nothing except that they are not cross platform.
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>> Or the use of these functions should be avoided? Or because simply nobody
>>> want to do that?
>>>
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>> No, a unix-only TFPTimer driver using these functions can be implemented
>> if you so wish it.
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>> I would definitely accept patches for it.
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>> Michael.
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> Fabio Luis Girardi
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