[Lazarus] Cross *nix Socket Signaling Mechanism

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:52:36PM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > Anyone want to respond with some basic semantics regarding signals and socket handles under Linux/Unix? ?
> 
> In short: on unix, you're better off with select() and friends.
> (which is basically what the main loop hooks in lazarus do)
> 
> I have no knowledge of an actual signaling mechanism for data. 
> epoll, select, poll all use a wait loop.
> 
> Michael.

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